Tony Serra, the great trial lawyer and staunch defender of freedom, who has always seen poetry in the law, provided a warm and nourishing site for a poetry reading the other evening.
Neeli Cherkovski read from his own work
" ON THE DRIVE SOUTH, I WAS THINKING" :
...... all of this falls away
as I race
inside, is this how it was
in the caves? did the animal painters
give a damn about deep wisdom?
I suspect
mindfulness was a constant, like
Autumn and its leaves ......
Neeli Cherkovski is a new discovery for me since moving to San Francisco, thanks to Conor, and his poetry touches me. Elegy to Bob Kaufman is as fine a tribute as anyone has ever written.
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