The red bird falls from the tree, lands on its head, rolls right back up on its feet. Hello, spring. Hello, sanity. Hello, trashfire century. Hello, wilted leaves and gothic vines. How are you doing today? I will water the thyme. I will make miniature succulents out of clay. I will bake you the most beautiful loaf of bread, eat half of it, and give the other half to whatever nothing I can find, pretend you are mine. Oh, how are you doing?

Why do so many startups fail? Why are all the hosts on CouchSurfing male? Are we going to be tweeting for the rest of our lives? Why do Silicon Valley billionaires choose average-looking wives?

New Year's poem.

He Marries the Stuffed Owl Exhibit At the Indiana Welcome Center and The Feeling of Needing a Pen

This Tumblr posts PDFs of poetry anthologies and books of cultural writing and other classic texts, bits of important historical music-related interviews, old, rare, or otherwise important or interesting records, etc. Would that I had the time to take in everything listed here.

A video by fiilmaker Andrea Dorfman and poet/singer/songwriter Tanya Davis. "Society is afraid of alonedom, like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements, like people must have problems if, after a while, nobody is dating them. but lonely is a freedom that breaths easy and weightless and lonely is healing if you make it."

Verse Daily, a quality online web anthology of poetry. A poem a day, along with our complete archives, and poem selections from the web.

"It's not your job to right a wrong / Just mark it FAIL and move along." With cute illustrations.

"White surf and a storm of sunlight, you running ahead and a smile Back-flung---but then, how go on? For what would it mean?"

"Clearly, you and I should be up there."

An interesting poetry event to which I went and at which I read and took a few photos.

"391 was first published by the poet and artist francis picabia in 1917 and was a bridge between the zürich dadaists, french surrealists, marcel duchamp and others."

"Oatmeal! I could almost taste it."

A poem/video by Billy Collins, US poet laureate.

"If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?"

"The background of this piece is that it's part of a 4 or 5 page letter I've written to a long lost friend of mine and Casey's. It's probably the only letter I've written in the last five years. Ironically, it's to a dead person."

"SciFaiku is a form of poetry inspired by the Japanese haiku. SciFaiku poems are short, minimal poems about science and science-fiction topics. They are presented with direct, tangible images in clear and simple language."