The Kind of World We Live In —lines for Lent The kind of world we live in is fraught with where and when the next outbreak will occur, which passenger […]

  from Ars Poetica? The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys […]

Transfiguration of the Beekeeper’s Daughter Because the bees flew toward light the color of honey, she couldn’t see them but heard their hum, deep thrum of the colony come out […]

In a series of synchronistic events a poem I wrote has come back to me more than thirty years after I wrote it and almost twenty years since I had […]

from An Interview with Li-Young Lee LYL : The word quest is in that word question. I feel as if I’m going to live my life as a giant question […]

Overhead The sun is a slow gong in a brass bowl, the moon also rings her bell against the indigo steel of the night sky. By painting, Emily Carr decoded […]

An Alphabet of Poets – J is for Jarman from THE WORD “ANSWER” With this prayer I am making up a God On a gray day, prophesying snow. I pray […]