Places 14: Kaleidoscope

<em>Places</em> 14: Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope Once I sought and found quiet in a one room cabin on a Southern Indiana farm. It was built from unfinished freshly milled wood and set inside a partly fenced-off glade of tall unmown grass between woods, pasture, a cow corridor and grainfields. The inside was undecorated and sparsely furnished. It was intentionally off […]

Places 04: Fog

<em>Places</em> 04: Fog

Wandering through young trees / at ease in this wet woods / my footsteps fade / deep into duff. The air has substance…

Places 01: Snow  

<em>Places</em> 01: Snow   

This poem, Snow, is about delay, risk and choices inside of changing circumstances—and, though not spoken, about aging.

Write Truth

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Write Truth

I would write truth. Engrave it on my heart / with flaming pens, of feathers / from Dove’s wings / set hot ablaze

Poems from Pursuit

Poems from <em>Pursuit</em>

Its light in colors lived and died
uncaptured,
a world apart
from all the raw and strain
upon my dimming heart…