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Video Poem: In Unlikely Places

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on December 7, 2012| 1 Comment »

Video Poem: In Unlikely Places

I am such a fan of this blog, Journey of the Heart, and today they’ve posted another of my video poems, this one about the grace that sometimes comes out of what looks like a big big bummer … 

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Struggle with the Divine

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on August 1, 2012| 7 Comments »

Tonight, the storm is not here, but I see it
in the distance. Lightning unzippers the air, white shock
of illumination. The sky doesn’t hide its bruises.

Dark tents of rain settle over the flats.
And the thunder, no matter how distant, grabs me
with its enormous hands, shakes me by the shoulders,

and tells me to hush. If the angel came to me tonight
and said it were my turn to wrestle, would I tussle with him
until daybreak? Would I try to shutter him out? If he pushed me

to the earth, would I leap up and run? Or lie there and let
him take me the way the rain would if it were here?
I hush. Must we fight for our blessings? Must we steal

for our birthright? The wind dances the leaves,
ravages my hair. Angel, please do not come tonight.
I am tired. Uncertain. Oh, you are already here.

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what just a few hours can do tanka

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on June 16, 2012| 4 Comments »

ripe apricots
heavy with sweetness
strewn around
the orchard floor this calm
morning after the wind storm

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five haiku

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on January 18, 2012| 1 Comment »


nothing holds back
the river forever—
these hands still trying

same cold, same dawn,
same landscape—even that hill
seems tired of standing

*

again I write
in my head the letter, again
I rip it up

*

and then the day came
when I sat in the lupine
instead of climbing

*

morning after
the storm each glittering limb
the most lovely

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