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Posted on December 20, 2011September 23, 2012 by Dave Bonta

Singing bowls with snow (Sherry O’Keefe)

too much august not enough snow

I wanted to go the year before it started—he murmurs in reply. Before trucks. Before the railroad, a white goat against the red mountain. Before tourists filled the park with snow-coaches and exhaust.

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Via Negativa is a unique experiment in daily, poetic conversation with the living and the dead. Dave Bonta founded the site in 2003 and Luisa A. Igloria joined in 2010. Guest authors contribute as well. Dave writes daily erasure poems to discover the poetry hidden in the Diary of Samuel Pepys. Luisa has been writing and posting a poem a day since November 2010, often in response to Dave’s entries at The Morning Porch. Collections of poems first published at Via Negativa include Luisa’s The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Mid-Life Crisis and Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser, and Dave’s Ice Mountain and Breakdown: Banjo Poems. Read more…

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