Too much to do...

Well, it's been a fun run, but I'm shutting this ol' blog down. Too much other stuff to do in the real world. Thanks for reading. Feel free to contact me otherwise.

I don't really know how to delete this and don't care to try and figure it out, so I guess it will lay in cyberspace, dormant and dead. Everything goes...

Peace.

Another poem...

Here's a poem I read a couple weeks ago. I know it's about a death, but it feels sacred and whole to me. Happy contemplation!


The Cross of Snow
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In the long, sleepless watches of the night,
A gentle face--the face of one long dead--
Looks at me from the wall, where round its head
The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light.
Here in this room she died, and soul more white
Never through martyrdom of fire was led
To its repose; nor can in books be read
The legend of a life more benedight.
There is a mountain in the distant West
That, sun-defying, in its deep ravines
Displays a cross of snow upon its side.
Such is the cross I wear upon my breast
These eighteen years, through all the changing scenes
And seasons, changeless since the day she died.

Welcome back to the internet

Things have been crazy in the Harrity house. We're gearing up for another baby, going back to school, dealing with job woes, making home improvements, and generally living a busy life. So, blogging has been the first thing to go, but I'm making an honest effort to pick it back up again.

That being said, were coming upon the Lenten season at warp speed and I've been having trouble getting my heart and mind prepared for all the beauty of it. It's time to slow down by reading poetry. Here's a poem of mine that appeared in the most recent issue of Copper-Nickel. I'll be posting some Lenten poems by other poets as I feel fit. Enjoy.




Pe



There's such a small divide between speech and silence,
one that isn't so much about absences of sounds

as about the way two noises touch
and move to one—the way a key enters

the dark of keyhole; the pleasant scrape
of metal comes closer and is gentle on the ear.

You’re this way in the stillness before dawn—the small voice
of a coming storm, like a silence that rests between

the end of one syllable and the beginning of another
great calm—a letter within letters, a flash of breath

between two parted words. Out of your mouth
the day unlocks and opens into a quiet quake of coming

thunder, the rattle of an alphabet of rain over the ground
and my windows—a cadence emerging, a thousand

caesuras opening the chest of a sentence—
your voices and your echoes breaking over us.

I about peed reading this...

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Amanda and I are pregnant again...

Why didn't anyone tell me this is how it happens? The Cause.

The baby is due April 11--just a couple weeks shy of Emmalynne's first birthday.

On the pathetic state of masculinity in our country...

The crude humor, the booze/drug/sex antics, the crazy debt, lack of responsibility, obsession with 'cool', and generally immature behavior--all of it points to a state of arrested development that has a firm grip on males in this country, and it makes me very, very sad. Young men are mookish caricatures of what the should be, of what the realities of life demand. Gentlemen, grow up.

Finally someone gets it right.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/156372

More later.

Membra Disjecta publishes the H-Man...

This very eclectic journal took a couple poems. Also, they're the first journal to pick up one from the Hebrew alphabet and my new manuscript "American Psalter"

http://membradisjecta.com/tag/david-harrity/

Ruminate Magazine (http://www.ruminate-online.org/) will be publishing some poems (3) in the coming months.

More later! Enjoy!