Village
[a reflection on identity and home] what an odd, odd village tiered and constructed across continents, across blossoming lifespans like...
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Exhortation
It must be conscious first. Those whom you fear, befriend. Those whom you disdain, befriend. Even he who tenacious holds against you,...
"This is not a test..."
A darkness whirling through woodland up and over carved rock into the central currents, a heroic severity of will breaking on the cliffs,...
this Fine Modern Life
i’ve never seen a grenade explode in person but still somehow i know the impersonal truth is explicit and graphic and my fine modern life...
Shadows
You mistake the shadows of mountains for men They come not from the line of rock and wind Bloodied hands Have no effect On them You...
The Doldrums
Deafening crests confine us, Here between these nylon walls. Eight feet to safety, six to the sea, Thick with ourselves refines us....
stories are true
Blasted blasted sex appeal -ed to me over the roar of baseball crowds and I don’t even like the sport or its kneeling congenial heroes....
the Taste of Water
the taste of water to an unmet tongue is there a more immortal song? is there a truer way to long the bright, cold rush of being young?
Stoneheart
Perhaps all our hearts are hardened, Mine is wood, yours is stone. Each a shackle heavy, locked and ransomed As we stumble home. We’ve...
Sewn
all the love I’ve lost in weaving, weaving yesteryear at once I thought was free and fearless irrevocably cost me dear but still was...
Portrait
sun-scarred eyes granite hard and grey ingrained, glittering in joyous inclusion, the wildest blooming tendrils entwine and a sea-change,...
paths
how odd that we grow up and down at the same time when the wind airs spacious those green spaces of nothing; light — like a featherweight...
On Waiting, and Magallanes
The great lesson I learned under infinite skies: Nothing is waterproof; everything dries. A cardinal corridor ‘twixt contrasting strokes,...
On Losing (and why that's not the point)
The unclimbed peak, to me, restless little heathen of commercialized adventuredom, is the interminable challenge. Ferocious, majestic,...
on Death
I see, as I fall (and falling from a great height) undeterred, a stream cutting an azure course, white and brave and blinding bright, in...
Jump Ship
Reading on dialectics and eternalities and forms, on tremendous propositions and their incumbent pretensions, all comfort shorn, I...
Crucifix
That girl (she was small) delivered as only a child does a character— of a child arms out as crucifix to bear a cumbersome cumbersome...
Assolutamente Sicura
Irregular idea tossed all too often into conversation There is no such thing So why ask for it Do you dis- agree that certainty is the...
Mississippi
Godless, but not gone. Thoughtless and thankless but not wrong, and down in Mississippi I gave my song away, Down below the line I drew...
lines and lines and circles
lines and lines and circles run furious full and in present absorb life that is active always as there is no stasis that is not in...
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