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reality…

27 Friday May 2022

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alone in the waiting room
checking the plant
for reality


Woodnotes #9 (spring-summer 1991)

letting her

24 Tuesday May 2022

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letting her
walk all over me
ladybug


bottle rockets 4:2 ( #8 spring-summer 2003)

with and against…

23 Monday May 2022

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a couple arguing…
with and against
the wind


Frogpond 21:2 ( 1998), 47

homework- review- by tom clausen

01 Sunday Dec 2019

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Homework by Tom Clausen. Saddle-stitched, full color cover, 4″ x 6″, 36 pages. $10., ppd. ISBN: 1-903543-00-2. Order from Snapshots Press, 132 Crosby, Liverpool, L23 8XS, England.

To quote the jacket notes: “Focusing squarely on domestic life, this collection of haiku, senryu, and tanka is often funny, often sad and always paradoxically both familiar and eye-opening.” It cannot be said better nor more succinctly what this newest book by Tom Clausen contains. I can only add my continuing praise for Tom’s work. It is always a revelation and delight how he seizes on the tiniest experience, and through his examination of it and the cool observation his own feelings, carries it over into a major event. This leaves the reader wondering, “Now, why did I not notice that?” and “Why did I not think of that as material for a poem?”. It seems that tanka is especially designed for the methods of Tom Clausen. Even when aware of the smallest thing, he is also aware of how that thing or event is affecting him. This occurs even in his haiku.

While some purists might fault his haiku for not being closely enough aligned with the nature-nature viewpoint, his sensibilities are absolutely accurate for tanka. This collection gains, I think, by the inclusion of his haiku (which often portray the lighter moments of family living). They seem to play off and actually highlight the attributes of his tanka. Altogether, the editing and arrangement of the poems seems especially fine and relevant. For anyone who has grown up in a family or is living in a family now, this book will take away those terrible moments of aloneness when one felt that no one else in the world ever had such moments of doubt, despair and pure undiluted joy. Tom has been there, and he has the courage to face them directly and honestly, and to continue to hang with the feelings until he has created pure poetry out of them.

no longer me
it proves a mystery who it is
I’ve become
walking around this house
with my family there inside

I sort of knew
my coffee cup
was empty –
so much I look in it
just to see

The sensitivity of the editor, John Barlow, is shown in the choice of a drawing done by Tom’s young daughter, Emma Clausen, as cover along with the insider joke of the title of the book – Homework. Delight piles on delight with this one. Review written by Jane Reichhold

a bit of life by tom clausen

19 Saturday Oct 2019

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frogpond vol. 41:3  fall 2018

giving a piece of cardboard
a bit of life
our cat

corner pub
my dark stout
in a Bud Lite glass

dress rehearsal by tom clausen

19 Saturday Oct 2019

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dress rehearsal-
i get up
out of bed

 

Stewart Park path through the woods along Fall Creek. 10-13-17

beyond me by tom clausen

18 Friday Oct 2019

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heron’s nest   september 2019

my cat
looks so many places
beyond me

dress rehearsal by tom clausen

18 Friday Oct 2019

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bottle rockets #41

dress rehearsal-
i get up
out of bed

so many paths by tom clausen

18 Friday Oct 2019

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akitsu quarterly summer 2019

her plant
only a little
water

crescent moon-
more talk
of our marriage

birch bark
flaps in the wind…
poem after poem

the light
showing so many paths
through the woods

dim sum- 2019/1- little poems by tom clausen

18 Friday Oct 2019

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dim sum- 2019/1- little poems by tom clausen

 

a new day
the distance
from last night’s dreams

riding a thermal
over the ferry
a gull

 

news of his death…
my get-well card
on the way

 

she puts on
her cowboy hat
to pump gas

Great Plains…
in the distance
a whole train

two chairs
watching
the river flow

our checkered past-
colorful leaves carpet
the rainy path

pickup game
this way and that
sneaker squeaks

forever stuck
in 1958
our encyclopedia

our hearts
for each other
in dispute

moose scat
I bring home
a photo

before
the trail was there
trail marker

by myself…
working out what
not to say

half moon-
i remember
i forgot

leaves falling…
she carries her little person
in front

climate change-
my wife
turns up the heat

a crop
of political signs
no man’s land

on the dock
the fixed stare
of a fake owl

close to home
I find myself
again

at my parents’ stone
I whisper
you brought me here

breakfast…
asking what she wants
for dinner

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