Here’s to you Jack—for the health of it
I’m listening to Bob Dylan play Forever Young and reading an email telling me my cousin Jack is in trouble with blood clots in his leg and a racing heart—has be...
Category: Spirituality
Poem for Kokura after hanami
Kokura, Japan, in the middle of April, there are cherry blossoms, like faces, eddying in alleys, swirling on pavement and in tight spiral trails behind bicycle ...
Love sonnet for the harlequin trinity
For three we pass by in our inner-city. The man with sleigh bells and teddy bears tied to the top of his walking staff, his striding dance and crimson coat flar...
Impulse toward spirit
Oh do not ask me who I am, for I would forget. What I dare not remember, Running from my memory with tired legs, With His mercy like an unclaimed mongrel, Follo...