We used to live in the shoals of time where the spread of life before us sparkled and spread out into an azure forever. We’re spread out, now, like oil on the well like the popping white sea foam LikeRead more…
I Blame Odysseus
Houses of the adoration of the night, give your keys into this one’s keeping. Open your libraries and salons within this being. There may need to be a room to house the great heart as it begins this journey ofRead more…
Dogs in the Elephant Village – Audio
Just wanted to post an audio version of my poem from Thailand, Dogs in the Elephant Village. My Dawgs in the elephant village (click pic to hear audio) MP3 Audio: Dogs in the Elephant Village
Nothing to Miss
3:30 am. Groggy but wide awake. Lurching or drifting out of sleep into the hard-edged silence of the dying hour. Maybe you are an Iyengar vegan, maybe you have the unicorn job we that provides lots of money, no stress,Read more…
In an effort to be political
I want to support the public discourse about Santorum. Taking care with anal sex is important. For us all. The politican… I can’t imagine him being important to a wider discourse except as a note on hate speech.
The age of doing
Sent this in a postcard to myself from Thailand. Thanks, Jami Sieber! 2012 is on us. The age of doing is over. Are you worshipping the past? Are you building fires toward illimitable being and wearing them out like aRead more…
Why Mina Birds whistle
The Suan Doi Guest House in Chiang Mai is a tropical paradise inside the urban riot of Thailand’s second city. Its spirit houses – outside and inside the property – are grand affairs befitting the jungle courtyard inside. Enormous urnsRead more…
On the Universality of Morning Doves
They’re here. Every morning, hidden away in the sparse jungle remnants around the condos. “hoohoo hoo”, they seem to be asking, and answering, “roo rooroo”. They’re not the smartest creatures, honestly. We had them in Ojai, and for some reasonRead more…
Inappropriate Foot
Every bodywork experience exists on a continuum somewhere between: 0 – Radioactive No-No Square (your bathing suit zones and nearby regions are strictly quarantined) …and… 10 – Happy Ending (rarely actually happy for anyone) Isaac Newton’s 3rd Law of MotionRead more…
Indian at the World Fair
It was common practice at the World Fair each year in England to bring natives – often whole family groups – from around the empire to live their daily lives, to exhibit themselves, for the edification and education of theRead more…