Why I Am Happy  Now has come, an easy time. I let it roll. There is a lake somewhere so blue and far nobody owns it. A wind comes by […]

Hangover Remorse Muhammad said, “Three kinds of people are particularly pathetic. The powerful man out of power, the rich man with no money, and the learned man laughed at.” Yet […]

For some reason my blog never sent out a notice when I posted this blog this afternoon. But it is there before P for Porter! And for some reason the […]

Testimony  I knew there were infinite possibilities. The world was catching fire. Leaves turned one by one to flame I saw my life clearly, in an instant: I had travelled […]

excerpts  From “Euphoria” (in five parts) 2 Dear Time, you swallowed us whole, swallowed us lovely,       sharp as bones Crimping sadly under foot my benign, my flotsam and crabs […]

Seduction Poetry catches me with her toothed wheel and forces me to listen, stock still, to her extravagant discourse. Poetry embraces me behind the garden wall, she picks up her […]

Overshadowed I have never prayed in Kyoto or slept on a bed of cherry blossoms. On my wooden altar, white petals have fallen. Beautiful losses. No-Mind No-mind has poured from […]

Just a quick check in! First, thank you all who are reading my posts! This has been an exciting challenge.  One that is taking a lot of time out of […]

* When Sappho wrote: “whatever one loves most is beautiful,” she began The  poems of heart’s praise That comprise the Book Of the body of the beloved Which is the […]

Weakness Old mare whose eyes are like cracked marbles, drools blood in her mash, shivers in her jute blanket . My father hates weakness worse than hail; in the morning […]