Poems and shorter work
The Wanderer
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Wishes and longings to the contrary, the wanderer does not find lasting rest. Movement is continuous.
Worlds, words, experiences coalesce. A moment engulfs.
In such landings, in such intensities, all is now intimately real. Duration of such inadvertent residing is not in the wanderer’s control.
The wanderer waits, is attentive, and surrenders in chance encounters, tales and songs.
The Wanderer is made up of 11 poems, prose and hybrid pieces, most of which have appeared in small magazines and online journals over the past four years.
Also by Douglas J. Penick
In Tricycle
His essays in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, on old age, pain, memory and the sages; the list follows the magazine.
On the Seawall
An essay on Frank Rosenblatt, an essay on Froberger, and a poem, in Ron Slate's On the Seawall.
Read: Frank Rosenblatt in Passing: The Rebirth of the Mimetic Impulse
Winter Light
Five essays on old age as its own time of life, told through Titian, Beethoven, Cézanne and others.
The Oceans of Cruelty
Twenty-five tales from India, retold: a young king, a corpse-spirit and the dark power of stories.