75,000 and counting!

Since I started my poetry blog in November 2010, there have been more than 75,000 visits to the pages and posts.

Thank you!

To celebrate this milestone, below is my Fibonacci sonnet, "To the Iron Goddess of Mercy"*

To the Iron Goddess of Mercy

light

ze-

roes on

the table

its wavelets bending

falling crest over trough into

the imaginary axis of reality

as I take my Krazy Glued teacup out of hiding

may the kettle whistle softly

may the day stay calm

may comets

swirl in

the

leaves

* - Ti Kuan Yin, Guanyin, or Iron Goddess of Mercy, is one of the most prized oolong teas. This poem is a Fibonacci sonnet with ostensible mathematical references to the Argand Diagram and Huygens's Principle of Diffraction.

Watershed

Watershed

I rode the rapids of the Iguazú

and flew above the falls at Devil’s Throat.

I sailed the Beagle Channel on a boat

that nearly capsized as it ran into

a thrashing squall. I paddled on the Plate,

the Jaguarão, the Corcovado; swam

the Paraná and didn’t give a damn

about piranhas or the spotback skate.

Those were the waters of the wild in me.

Now time has tamed the tenor of my dream

and I am drawn back to the source, the stream

I disregarded as an absentee—

the Susquehanna, ancient, faithful, strong.

The river that had borne me, all along.

 
(by Catherine Chandler, first published in The Literary Bohemian, Issue 22, April 2015)