Baby Baby it’s alright Stop your crying Now. Nothing is here to stay. Everything has to begin and end. A ship in the bottle won’t sail. All we can do […]

The Bright Field I have seen the sun break through and illuminate a small field for a while, and gone my way and forgotten it. But that was the pearl […]

VANISHING GODS Each year I wait for two maples at the shore to gild themselves, scullery maids off to the ball. We were in foreign parts, touring the qubbas, the […]

Spoiler Can you diagnose fear? The red tree blooming from uterus to throat. It’s one long nerve, the doctor says. There’s a reason breathing helps, the muscles slackening like a […]

Easter Conversations “they said unto them, why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here but is risen, remember how He spoke unto you when you were […]

Lover’s Instructions I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark one come upon you, which shall be the darkness of God. T.S. Eliot, East Coker Lights out- […]

Today, this Mother’s Day he will write a different poem. Peony soft with big-enough curves to wrap around the moon when it’s full. A poem with photons enough to light […]

  New Zealand journalist Rod Oram’s answer in an interview on a question on willingness for individual action on climate change recorded a few months before his death March 19th, […]

War I have been described by it, often seen it rise up the mouths of strangers, as if to say all things foreign – note: referring to me, or, my […]

from IRIE ITES ……………………………………………………. I consider the vertigo of my days. as if I am still mourning my sister’s death, the deepest absence that will not relent. When I said […]