Poet's Musings
Hans Ostrom. Poet, professor, etc.
Thursday, April 24, 2025
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Risky, Rickety Bridge
It was a cafe in Time. It was
an evening in space. You twomet, talked and listened, heard
and spoke. Eyes seeing faces.
Nostrils noting aromas, Gestures,
shifts of bodies. Smiles, giggles,
frowns. Tendrils of thought
intertwining. The unfolding
took you to a precipice. Where
a thin, swaying bridge made
of rusty cables and gray boards
offered a way across a chasm,
a segment of two lives' times,
a space called risk.
Hans Ostrom 2025
Concerning Cardamom
I first met it in childhood,
eating Swedish butter crescentrolls laced with it. I called it
cardamon for years.
It's not sour or sweet or
hot or bland. Not among
the brash, ballistic, or
bombastic spices. A taste-shifter.
It comes from wee dark seeds
held in narrow, sage-green, three-
sided pods picked from low-growing
tropical plants. It cloaks sugar
in subtlety. Builds coalitions
inside pastry, pudding, or pilafs.
It attracts attention it never
demands. Cardamom allures
as it defers. Again
I move toward it with description
in hand. It dances aside, ever
out of reach. It might even grace
the taste of a peach.
hans ostrom 2025
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Friday, April 11, 2025
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Sunday, April 6, 2025
Staring Becomes the Fourth Line
A corner of a ceiling:
could be in any squarishbuilding anywhere on Earth.
Three lines intersect, dissolve
into a point. Maybe where you
are now, you find a corner to see.
Seeing, you might get transfixed,
the familiar becoming strange.
Shade versus light. Axioms
versus wood, plaster, stone,
paint,,,, Or: just that thing
which staring or even
imaginging in darkness
can do: hold your mind, bind
it; tug, coax, seduce it. Staring,
sight becomes the fourth line.
hans ostrom 2025
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Preposterous
This planet onto which women
birth us: it's lit by an explosion
we call Sun. I think about
how that statement's parts
are all unlikely. Preposterious.
As is the visual, aural sign,
"preposterous" & the systems
it belongs to. Ask why any
of this, any of us, occurred,
and I think if we're honest,
we must confess, "We cannot
know--not ever fully, all the way."
hans ostrom 2025
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