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Hymn

2020-04-26T14:43:23-07:00

                          What if the sovereign himself is the villainous                   [...]

Hymn2020-04-26T14:43:23-07:00

Signature

2020-04-26T14:24:40-07:00

                                    Listening...we don't.                                      The inner conversation never stops.                                     It's a constant racket                                                                         – Philip Glass     Almost breathless I sat down in my balcony mid-center seat [...]

Signature2020-04-26T14:24:40-07:00

Oxen

2020-01-04T11:20:03-07:00

You are storied: Pulling the iron plough, sign of service and constant labor. No wonder you stand near the child in the manger, warming his cheeks with your breath. Where, [...]

Oxen2020-01-04T11:20:03-07:00

The Pearl

2020-01-04T11:12:03-07:00

Say I am the king's second daughter in a kingdom where everyone dies say I was sent to the city to recover the pearl guarded by a serpent I was [...]

The Pearl2020-01-04T11:12:03-07:00

Between Here and There

2019-10-26T08:46:46-07:00

Between here and there   one elongated time that began at the farthest reach glazed black pinnacles of rock minarets thrust skyward merging with wind-scoured boulders blocking passage north-northwest where you headed [...]

Between Here and There2019-10-26T08:46:46-07:00

MELVILLIAN

2019-10-25T10:51:17-07:00

Almost my favorite lines during the whole Melvillian winter of hearing him, not him exactly, but some guy reading him aloud, mile after mile, and he really did Ishmael justice, [...]

MELVILLIAN2019-10-25T10:51:17-07:00

Only a Few

2019-09-17T10:58:00-07:00

Is it only a few who take the path of many windings who river-like find their way?   What is it I asked one near to my heart who looking [...]

Only a Few2019-09-17T10:58:00-07:00

Burial Fragments

2019-09-17T10:58:40-07:00

—Buena Vista Park, San Francisco     There’s no room for the dead   in this small city, nearly an island, where we trade corpses for houses   digging up [...]

Burial Fragments2019-09-17T10:58:40-07:00

Watching

2019-07-29T12:37:20-07:00

Watching dew evaporate in sunshine a hermit wrapped in a threadbare coat writes as if to his illusory self Let everything disappear   Sitting beneath a pine grasping his knees [...]

Watching2019-07-29T12:37:20-07:00

Watching

2019-07-29T12:32:52-07:00

Watching dew evaporate in sunshine a hermit wrapped in a threadbare coat writes as if to his illusory self Let everything disappear   Sitting beneath a pine grasping his knees [...]

Watching2019-07-29T12:32:52-07:00
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