While there is still time

Poem for a Man with No Sense of Smell This is simply to inform you: that the thickest line in the kink of my hand smells like the feel of a...

"You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You thi...

Matins Louise Glück You want to know how I spend my time? I walk the front lawn, pretending to be weeding. You ought to...

Over It Now the splinter-sized dagger that jabs at my heart has lodged itself in my aorta, I can’t worry it anymore. I liked the pain, the ...

Lines of Force The pleasure of walking a long time on the mountain without seeing a human being, much less speaking to one. And the pl...

How snow falls Like the unshaven prickle of a sharpened razor, this new coldness in the air, the pang of somethin...

“Look underfoot. You are always nearer to the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is decep...

Promise of Blue Horses A blue horse turns into a streak of lightning, then the sun - relating the difference between sadness and the need t...

Dreams and Poetry Hu Shih (1891-1962) It’s all ordinary experience,  All ordinary images. By chance they emerge in a dream, Turning out inf...

Next Time I'll know the names of all of the birds and flowers, and not only that, I'll tell you the name of the piano player I'...

"But I don't want comfort. I want poetry. I want danger. I want freedom. I want goodness. I want sin." Aldous Huxley, 'B...

Hamlet The buzz subsides. I have come on stage. Leaning in an open door I try to detect from the echo What the future has in store.  A thou...

"Ali said: None may arrive at the Truth until he is able to think that the Path itself may be wrong." 'Thinkers of the East, ...

Litany You are the bread and the knife, The crystal goblet and the wine… -Jacques Crickillon You are the bread and the knife, the crystal g...

Mary Oliver, while speaking about her late partner, Molly Cooke, in 'Our World': "It has frequently been remarked, about my ow...