How a miss is a kind of hit
Last night walking home from a poetry reading I was inches away from being struck in a crosswalk by a vehicle running a red light at speed. I felt the quick pus...
Category: Life
In praise of things you’ve seen
I Two friends hug in greeting then talk while holding each other by the elbows. Even from across the street their profiles bear a kind of light, like creation. ...
A slender portrait of Ike Glick to mark the abstraction and reality of his 90th birthday
Here are some names: Pioneer, bush pilot, itinerate teacher, wry pundit, incisive scribe, ironic modern prophet path-maker, risk-taker, innovator, restless pari...
Into the haze arms outstretched
The shroud of smoke from the mainland fires is returning. The cigarette-ash grey dome is returning, with its swinging censer of bitter incense, its pewter rinse...