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 […]

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 […]

  BLACKBERRY EATING I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks very prickly, a penalty they […]

I was thrilled to be able to join the on-line Art Bar Poetry Reading Series on November 2nd, 2021.  I taped a twenty-five minute video! The Art Bar Reading Series […]

The End The room is too small for a serious debate between two lovers who are no more, but perfect for the silences of space, the cosmos swallowing up comment, […]

NOT NOW for Dzvinia Orlowsky Where is the the man of heaven in me— my body’s filthy, face and hands completely filthy with the man of dust This mask this […]

  TODAY I WAS HAPPY, SO I MADE THIS POEM As the plump squirrel scampers Across the roof of the corncrib, The moon suddenly stands up in the darkness, And […]

from NICHE Last winter a chorale in an old church, a cold night in a prairie city. The unaccompanied human voices smouldered and keened, swelled the stone building, fluttered in […]

One Heart  Look at the birds. Even flying is born out of nothing. The first sky is inside you, open at either end of day. The work of wings was […]

THE POWER OF SUICIDE The potflower on the windowsill says to me In words that are green-edged red leaves : Flower     flower     flower     flower Today for the […]