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…
What are you waiting for?
Too-close buzz, steel-shod electric clippers pulling off the hair. Bumblebees in their striped jackets, cousins of hummingbirds, not gliding but fired over nectar or beauty, fierce darts of the sky, spun from sugar, like my plans, inferred from the unseenRead more…
Do not cling to hard labors
I touched it, in the quiet when I made myself, for 3 continuous seconds, focus on what has been so good. It’s got me now. Like the tar baby. The more I pull back from this great pulsation behind things,Read more…
No Longer Writing
In the late pull of afternoon watered down by autumn coming something is wrong. The crack that has been growing through the plaster over the low quiet summer has begun, as I can’t, to weep. Approaching fingers catch a deepRead more…
untraceable ferocity
Sky and sulphur, winter sun in May.If you return here again and think exactly the same thoughtsit will be new. If you memorize all the dances and take each step like an executive of motion, it would be freeing.Whatever youRead more…
Enough
Tomorrow is the shadow of glass towers. Breathe the way into morning, one lifting filling including earth fire, the robin throat sky, flesh-pale elm roots, the sheltering hills. Enough. Sell your ideas of yourself at bargain prices. Take up yourRead more…
Hopeful
I came to explore the wreckbut the ocean had gotten there firstsand dozers and bilge filling tendrils of the surf had been at the behest ofhigh-hat waves,seagulls worrying over something in thekelp I did not want to see.There were theRead more…
Remember this is the one
In the night when you pray in secret to be unmoved by the tides of suffering,when you mutter, “Lord, make my heart a stone” Remember. This is the one who invented babies teething, puberty,who gave us marriage so we wouldRead more…
Secret Documents
The Letter’s arrived and they’re asking you – come to serve as a secret agent? Everything has to seem the same Mornings and driving and buying things that no one needs, But when you’re in the store, You will beRead more…
rejoice
Take up the leavings of a life.Say “thank you” in a clear voice.Bow to the unseen face of the training place –garden, ocean, dojo, cathedral, street corner,overflowing gutters of disappointment.Take up the friendships, the San Andreas pressures,the fragile desires, theRead more…