Monthly Archives: September 2016

The Bigness of Small Poems – #20 in a Series – Hyaena Season Launches!

Cherish This World The daughter, for a time, who wouldn’t talk or look at him, that daughter, tells of her days and nights on Mandarte Island, barely more than a rock in the Salish Sea. He touches his tongue to the sound Man-dart-eh makes in the mouth. Says it again and again. Something cracks open […]

A Poet/Saint! Happy 88th Birthday to Jean Vanier on Sept. 10th

I grieve to speak of love and yet not love as I should. I ask forgiveness of the many I have wounded. And of the many I have passed without seeing their wounds. Pray for me, my brother. Jean Vanier from the foreword to Tears of Silence, Griffin House, 1971 For me, it seems absurd […]