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About Alfred K. LaMotte

Alfred K. LaMotte is an adjunct professor of world religions and an interfaith chaplain in Olympia WA. He loves to gather circles for "Poetryoga and Meditation."

Fred has published Wounded Bud: Poems for Meditation and Savor Eternity One Moment At A Time with Saint Julian Press. He co-authored Shimmering Birthless: A Confluence of Verse and Image, with Hawaiian artist Rashani Réa.

More information is available on his Amazon author page.

Three Poems by Alfred K. LaMotte

Alfred K. LaMotte

natural artifacts / credit: de

Pledge I pledge allegiance to no flag. I pledge allegiance to no nation, no government, no border. True patriotism is rebellion. True rebellion is joy. Cast down the mighty, the masters of … [Read more...]

Negative Capability: Keats and Buddha

Alfred K. LaMotte

John Keats by Joseph Severn 1819

The relationship of Buddhism and the poetic process is a sublime yet unexplored topic among Western scholars. It’s about the silent space between the words, not just the word itself. The poet John … [Read more...]

Six poems by Alfred K. LaMotte

Alfred K. LaMotte

Oval - D. Raphael

ELECTION I voted. I voted for the rainbow. I voted for the cry of a loon. I voted for my grandfather's bones that feed beetles now. I voted for a singing brook that sparkles under a … [Read more...]

Into Jazz: Five Poems

Alfred K. LaMotte

Into Jazz - Poems by Alfred K LaMotte

1. FALLUJAH Training in the woods at Fort Lewis, Washington, on patrol and for a moment quite alone, you happen upon a trillium, moon-silver secret revelation piercing fern green … [Read more...]

Four Poems by Alfred K. LaMotte

Alfred K. LaMotte

PULVERIZED I pulverized your jaw with a knuckle sandwich but you fought back blossoming your hyacinth. Then I shattered a quart of Colt 45 on the ivory lingam of your skull but you exfoliated … [Read more...]

At the Carnival of Drunken Poets

Alfred K. LaMotte

pieces of the story / credit: de

I ran into Kerouac at the carnival where those just dead meet those about to be reborn. He and I have wandered through the zodiac again and again, like prodigal suns. Both of us enter this … [Read more...]

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Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

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