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On the Fourth Day of the Retreat at Omega when Noah Hoffeld Played Cello and We Wrote and Spoke Poems for Three Hours 

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on June 18, 2026| 6 Comments »


 
You may not believe me, but
the building was floating. 
Well above its foundation.
Right there in the middle
of the Hudson Valley woods,
surrounded by oak and locust,
squirrels leaping from tree to tree. 
 
You may not believe me, but that building
not only lifted from the ground 
and hovered in the air like a hummingbird
might hover above a Hosta or honeysuckle, 
it glowed. The building glowed. A soft, golden
hue that radiated through the gray
cocoon of the day, as a lighthouse beacons
through fog. 
 
And if you had been there in the building,
you might have felt it, too, the fluttering truth
of what happens to a body when, 
layer by layer it opens and opens, 
resists and opens, meets shame and opens, 
meets fear and opens, meets ache and disgust
and exhaustion and opens and opens until
all that is left of a person is the opening itself.
 
You may not believe that we,
who were in that floating building
became the glow, but I know. 
In my cells, still glowing hours later,
I know. I know. 
 

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Wellspring of Imagination

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on November 15, 2019| Leave a Comment »

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Truth serum cannot be made alone. We will begin with stories

in which there are red flowers, white flowers, maggots, gold.

Add walks in the woods where the walls of the gorge

still remember when they were plateau. Hours

of listening to the other voices of ourselves speaking.

Bright chime of a singing bowl. Scent of burnt toast.

Taste of wild muscadine. Snaps and laughter and scratch

of pen on paper. Acorns and snake skin and hazelwood.

There is truth here to be found, but no one

can serve it to you. You must choose it. And it’s slippery–

like your own handwriting that you later can’t read,

like wet leaves on a hill, like the sun that enters the grove,

then is gone.

 

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Rapunzel Reconsiders Tanka

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on December 23, 2011| 2 Comments »

On second thought,
the tower is nice.
Quiet.
You can keep
the braid.

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