a swift circle in a square • holding hands with the wind.
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I remind you, gentle readers, that these poems are daily and pretty unedited. this started as what might have been haiku-like: Eye blue sky, clouds small smaller smallest until they pale to horizon high hills and valleys clouds pouring steadily … Continue reading →
Grey stubble of trees along the river fuzz along the ridges waiting for spring clouds grey above, water steel hills dark, trees bare and shaking in the hard wind of today we’re all trembling, waiting for spring praying for strength … Continue reading →
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality… Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The slatted sky shows bars of light and gray this … Continue reading →
The drive in and lunchtime On awakening, scrim of snow, April second all kinds of fake news. On April second, the snow, a scrim obscuring, all kinds of fake news pouring from the radio dripping down the screens Turn them … Continue reading →
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you’re working on another one.
