“Sweetness, Always”
By Pablo Neruda
excerpt
2015
December 1: inbetweeen
December 2: in moments of exhaustion, remember
December 3: sleep cycles
December 4: “what’s your ultimate goal?” he asked.
December 5: to others
December 6: how to live in an empty room
December 7: daily practice
December 8: i can feel my face when i’m with you
December 9: practicality
December 10: dear america
December 11: art & life
December 12: on the kickwheel
December 13: writing space
December 14: loving after the war years
December 15: from the ordinary
December 16: potter’s wish
December 17: mantra
December 18: what is observable
December 19: real
December 20: earnings
December 21: premonition
December 22: preparation
December 23: of clay
December 24: on success
December 25: on christmas
November 1: this ship, 2
October 27: space, place
September 7: at the rate of trees
August 1: climate
August 2: because it’s there
August 3: of past and present
August 4: family
August 10: this desert
August 14: urgency
August 16: simmer
August 21: the switch
August 22: sever
June 1: hazard on euclid, 2
June 2: contradiction, 1
June 3: contradiction, 2
June 4: progress
June 5: for a time
June 6: reversal
June 7: reversal, 2
June 8: prelude
June 9: prelude, 2
June 10: prelude, 3
May 5: equal opportunity
May 7: essential
May 18: delight
May 20: no measurement
May 26: edit
April
National Poetry Month
30 poems in 3 days?
1/30: suddenly, there
2/30: three decades
3/30: loosen
4/30: pausing
5/30: climbing
6/30: estranged
March 1: landing
March 10: forgive the roughness
March 11: to dive
March 13: canceled all my plans today
March 14: searching
March 15: i do this
March 16: whimsical war strategies
March 17: so it begins
March 18: from bed
March 19: terminology
March 20: appropriation
March 21: #oneforone
March 22: on the sea
March 23: confrontation
March 24: abundance
March 25: a day that hurts
March 26: a slower pace
March 27: passing clouds
February 1: glory
February 2: attachment, 3
February 3: most of the time
February 4: attachment, 4 // place
February 5: jumping
February 9: in the mail
February 10: predisposition
February 11: what we do
February 14: #survivorloveletter
February 15: ordinary
February 16: attachment, 5 // books
February 17: the words
February 18: attachment, 6 // memories
February 19: nothing stolen
February 23: invitation only
February 25: note to self – softness
February 28: cold feet
January 1: fumble
January 2: new year
January 3: procreation
January 4: procreation, 2
January 5: how it is
January 6: how it is, 2
January 7: how it is, 3
January 8: how to embrace
January 9: how it is, 4
January 10: so much
January 11: procreation, 3
January 12: what to do
January 13: step outside to the sunlight, 1
January 14: step outside to the sunlight, 2
January 15: get down to plant a seed
January 16: read your life in the stars bright
January 17: you are light beam
January 18: grow with the intentions
January 19: the world they think made
January 20: grow with the memories
January 21: rise above this police state
January 22: get up with the breeze
January 23: repair
January 24: fast metabolism
January 25: oldest subject
January 26: you stand on Ohlone bones
January 27: fresh air
January 28: presence, 2
January 29: writers and coffee shops
January 30: paper
January 31: teamwork
narinda heng 