For M.H., and other loves who protected my desireMore
Tag Archives: truthfulness
The Torn Canopy
We used to pray for rain, for sustenanceMore
Lamenting before restless sleep
Perhaps when I finally sleep, I will dream and the world will be made newMore
It is a certain faith we have in life…
flecks and flickerings of…faith?More
Moksha
Just what does the wind do with our flames?More
A spider knows
Sometimes, knowledge is courage. Sometimes courage is oblivionMore
No stopping poetry
Worlds beyond worlds and worlds within worldsMore
Dawning
Read, weep, rejoiceMore
Inquisition
…there is a cost to spirit for everything…More
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
Nobody deserved it
In memory of a town whose struggle is only beginning. And not only a townMore
her stillness made me heave
Every being demands attention, and every being is a vortexMore
Let Him Be, Let Him In
What to do about this uncanniest of guestsMore
I do not know
The breakdown of my clevernessMore
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
Love the Dust 