(March 14, 2024)
Each up, each down, each strange, and every charm that naively splits the atom from which ghost particles emerge and leave us puzzling over metaphors and their meaning, leads us...
(March 7, 2024)
The air is crisp Sunshine streaming through the window With a bite A gentle breeze plays with the curtain. Trees jut up on The horizon, a row of clouds Blanket...
(February 29, 2024)
Looking Out Towards endless waves Rolling in effortlessly Changing coastlines In ways unimaginable Just a few years ago. The air we now breathe Is no longer sustainable And our...
(February 22, 2024)
On the plane, Next to me; Her book is Arabic, while The big fellow in front; Tattoos all over, hugs his daughter, Whispering thoughts, To her demurred, shy smile lighting ...
(February 15, 2024)
when you find yourself under a fleet of gulls your wonder is as far as your wonder can justly take you. you just can't reach out and take this gull,...
(February 8, 2024)
They wait silently in the trees and bushes For the seeds I throw Every morning on the wooden deck The juncos a variety of sparrows One with a missing tail...
(February 1, 2024)
Dancing in puddles Digging in mud The things that all toddlers Do with great love. And we have a toddler All covered in fur Who dances And prances And burrows...
(January 25, 2024)
Not bothering with resolutions, I celebrate the New Year by hiking. I start with the hills in the park nearby, legs burning from doing nothing all fall, all year. Days...
(January 18, 2024)
White fir, you are fine in your frosty coat. The weight of the season rests on your branches. Hunker down, sweet conifer. May I make tea from your needles? I...
(January 11, 2024)
Atlanta born there was a man who in his youth had known the wrongs of racial hate–and thus began the quest where living love belongs. Of brotherhood he dared to...
(January 4, 2024)
Days grow shorter shadows lengthen naked branches of my favorite oak trees skeletons of former glory snake across the sky. last leaves hold on, holding out last rays of dying...
(December 21, 2023)
I thought October would take the edge off. After all, there's no way this fickle light and a few chance rains Could turn my head any further. . Now the...
(December 14, 2023)
For my father A scarlet oak blazing in autumn above the woolen hats we rebirthed from a box marked 'winter' Chlorophyll ceding to carotenoid ending, as if to begin. In...
(December 7, 2023)
Driving home In the pouring rain From coastal flatlands Trees just now Turning color. Maples glowing An unexpected splash of color In the dark redwoods. Here the river shows little...
(November 23, 2023)
I barely remember seeing the night, Like an old, dry Autumn Not going away. Help me turn this knob, Sliding back, To the waiting moon, Eating at sunset's table. Let...
(November 16, 2023)
In the midst of tragedy and suffering there is the earth's insistent beauty. A Syrian boy sits Alone on a plastic chair Covered in soot His child hand wiping his...