The World's Second Best Junichi P Semitsu Website

Published: 11 years ago

Let Us Gather, My Fellow Inch Worms

When I need inspiration, guidance, or wisdom (which is always), I often look to the words of June Jordan.  (The photo of us above was taken in my San Francisco flat back in 2000.)

Today, I re-read my favorite book of her poetry, Kissing God Goodbye: Poems 1991-1997, and have decided to adopt this stanza from “Poem Because the 1996 U.S. Poet Laureate Told the San Francisco Chronicle There Are ‘Obvious’ Poets…” as my personal mantra whenever I find myself seething:

 

And burrowing under everything you think

you know

some of us move slow

like inch worms

softening the earth

to bury you

 

So hilarious, so ominous, so perfect.   I am burrowing like never before.

I miss you, June — my hero, mentor, and friend.

 

  1. By criminal lawyer Rancho Cucamonga on July 25, 2015 at 10:22 pm

    exercise is right for you outline your

    article as follows: 2-3 sentence paragraph overview of your topic different forms of exercise based on lifestyle such as walking, running, lifting weights, swimming, or yoga, and whether or not the reader is a single parent of very young children, stay

  2. By forrunners.pl on August 28, 2015 at 12:02 pm

    that offer training in getting more website

    or blog traffic. plus, when it comes to getting more website traffic, most people will tell you that search engine optimization (or seo) and content creation via blogging are key to getting free traffic. so, everyone in internet marketing online is

Have a Comment?


7 × eight =

Some HTML is OK