While there is still time

While You Are in the Hospital ...If I could really love, I would take away these tubes dripping lipids and glucose into your blood. I w...

“….Most music tries to control its circumstances, just as most of us do. But there’s another way to live. Accept indeterminacy as a princip...

We have done what we wanted. We have discarded dreams, preferring the heavy industry of each other, and we have welcomed grief and called r...

Going There Of course it was a disaster. The unbearable, dearest secret has always been a disaster. The danger when we try to leave. ...

Morning, Thinking of Empire We press our lips to the enameled rim of the cups and know this grease that floats over the coffee will one...

What's Left How often now, raging weeping for the days love gives then takes away, takes from you the slightly chapped hand laid on the...

"To possess anything means to be possessed by it - the world enthralls those who possess some of its goods, whereas "the true faq...

This Was Once a Love Poem This was once a love poem, before its haunches thickened, its breath grew short, before it found itself sitti...

A time to remember the Zenrin poem again, that this moment is enough. And a time to watch the light of October. The ...

When did your name change from a proper noun to a charm? Its three vowels like jewels on the thread of my breath. Its consonants b...

Defending joy like a trench defending it from scandal and routine from misery and the miserable from absences both tr...

The Beautiful Changes Richard Wilbur One wading a Fall meadow finds on all sides   The Queen Anne’s Lace lying like...

“Drawing is anyway an exercise in orientation and as such may be compared with other processes of orientation which take place in nature. ...

Hold Everything Dear For John Berger ....the paths they make towards us and how far we open towards them the justice of grass that unr...

Midlife This is as far as the light of my understanding has carried me: an October morning a canoe built by hand a quiet current a...