Tag Archives: courage

Cuts

Decisions cut across time. We never make a decision that stays put and does not travel somewhere–upward, downward, outward, inward–after it is made. Decisions are made to move, to move us, to move the world, and to keep moving themselves. So the incision of decisions regards not only the cutting away of other options but…More

Careful–or not

Careful–or not.  You don’t be careful, you’re going to wind up dead.  Every time Grandma spoke to me like that, I tried to show her that I still cared about my life and that I was not reckless.  But she was right, I would end up dead…in fact, I did end up dead; that’s how…More

the forever of unsure

It was impossible to be precise about itNo one felt anything definiteThere wasn’t any announcement about the thingWhen it happenedWe understood nothing of what had happenedTo us. We would have been afraid to sayAnything about it but the fearWas unpronounced, a vague stirringInstead we watched the earth shakeThe sky change into colorsUnimagined until now, now…More

Poetry and the Idea

Does poetry relate to the idea?  Yes, as far as the idea is force all poetry, and always, relates to it, as speaking out is a force and, like ideas, is effective in the world around it, the world of forces.  What the idea is besides this force, or as this force, is of course…More