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 lonely and felt unloved the [...]

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 down the long beach you [...]

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 back saw thirty years of [...]

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 against howling wind he loves [...]

As when a poet imagined they gave the animal that never was space   and fed it love until it grew a spiraling horn having had that power being themselves imagined   he turned his head smiling at [...]

  1     You're counseled when waking to the quick of pain distract yourself    concentrate on breath let Divine Will have its way with you accept what you cannot mitigate    ignore or change   [...]