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PoetryStung by news of poaching
Pricked by the image of winking killers with guns held aloft, I open to a fiercer version of myself: I am storm winds, I…
PoetryNew Years Day
of what first day of what first hour a frigid dawn with northern winds ice blue sky how one day slips into the next…
PoetryWhere Is Peace On Earth? (After Linda Pastan)
Where is peace on earth? you ask and I say it is present the way silence is present beneath the din of everything; it arrives…
PoetryMediums
There’s a pencil scratch across the sky, a jagged mark from a passing plane, and a placid river where I like to think of…
PoetryAn Idyllic Sickness
“[…] a groundless sadness called forth in a person’s heart by a pastoral landscape.” - Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage…
PoetryTHE MOST RECENT CONVERSATION
The most recent conversation with ma took place over the telephone. Her voice seemed a bit formal and reserved; mine was a black hole…
PoetryLooking through you
in the midst of the steel and mortar of downtown Cleveland is a small park-like section, an old cemetery actually sitting right in the…
PoetryEnlightenment
I was seventeen when I read Alan Watts’ The Way of Zen a couple pages at a time, putting down the book to observe sunset…
PoetryLeak at the Gym
While stretching my neck, I notice water dripping from the ceiling And a puddle on the floor Beside the rowing machine. It trembles with…
PoetryPigeon
What theatre-mask to wear for the pigeon Dying, guttered in tarnished aluminum, a crumpled pile of fly-ash and clean smoke half-hidden by wrought-iron guardrails;…
PoetryA long time
our words have never meant less scraped together, they barely mark this page in the shadow of her death. we watched your penultimate breath…