Category Archives: Poetry

Body Parts 2 Reading – 3/19 Peter Nolan Smith

March 20, 2025 – 10:18 am

I’ll be reading LAZARUS II At Makers Ensemble Wednesday night 3/19 I have a new life After death Not the first time__ Last month Alex was sweet___ She lied About my odor___ Not only I do smell old I smell of Lazarus Risen From the grave__ I need a new smell An old bottle of […]

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Nude Modeling Day # 1

March 20, 2025 – 4:13 am

On Canal Street In Chinatown Seven minutes to 1 On time Climb three flights of stairs First floor a wonton shop Second floor a Mah-Jong parlor The clack of tiles Third floor a massage parlor A faint aroma of tobacco One more set of steps to the drawing studio___ Seven older artists before easels Sitting […]

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South From Tibet 1995

March 13, 2025 – 8:22 pm

In early November 1995 I had hitched a ride from Shitgatze, Tibet south on my way to the Nepali border after spending a month in Lhasa. After a few hours on the Friendship Highway I was dropped at the t-intersection of two dirt roads; National Highways 318 and 219. The van disappeared west and I […]

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Laying On A Suburban Lawn – New England

March 12, 2025 – 12:05 pm

Noon West of Boston and 128 Mid-March Noon Lying on my sister Pam’s sloping lawn Under the Winter sun The grass awaiting the Spring to green__ Beyond the lawn A steep descent into a gully An Eastern pine rises from below My eyeball estimate Over a hundred feet in the air Over two hundred years […]

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A Bus To Boston

March 10, 2025 – 7:11 pm

March 9 Daylights Saving ends Two weeks short of the equinox Yesterday sunrise at 6 Today 7 The Flex Bus departure at 8 Pack my bag go taxi__ 7:41 The Bowery and Canal The old Fung Wah stop Departure on time Cross the East River I know this route well Chinatown to Chinatown 1962 to […]

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