Live Poets Society

Harbingers of spring

2010-06-01T15:02:00.003-06:00

They come
from west of town
over rough
snow-laced fields
narrow cloud one-mile long,
robins. Robins
coming home.
~ Vera Noyce

Live Poets Society

2008-03-17T15:20:00.000-06:00

The Live Poets Society is devoted to writing, reading and promoting poetry. We are affiliated with the Log Cabin Literary Center in Boise, Idaho. We meet twice a month primarily to explore our own writing. The group was formed at the encouragement of William Studebaker and resulted in the publication of What Mattered Once, What Matters Now, an anthology of poetry.

2008-02-26T11:37:00.002-07:00

Virgin

There was no hush-hush no reticence
in the talk about the sometimes confrontations
between the Filipino barman who had Our Lady in hock
and the little girl who wanted her back
if the priest was coming she would run down the block
to the bar face and hands and sagging school socks
grayish-white in the dim doorway
saying can we get the statue back
people said anyway there she is again the girl
the daughter of the drinker of the man
who bartered the household god for a jar
with the boys and a night spent heaving in the can