Lesser Burden
In your crowded heart there’s a list: cares, fears, hopes, loves, dissipations, disappointments, &n...
Category: Poetics
Memories that arise when you’re healthy
When I find joy in watching someone else’s delight I know I’m healthy, and I rock holy, and go walking about like a beatnik wearing a smile that surly looks sil...
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...
I want joy to claim you
I want to write for you the story of redemption, maybe not the story that comes to mind at the word redemption, but the open and flowing and liberating slow dis...