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…
BLES (Boone Lott Elephant Sanctuary)
I’m not sure what makes the mountains of Thailand. The way they press suddenly up out of the plains, covered in jungle, mounded, broken but unassailably beautiful. The rice paddies are a kind of green to make Ireland sit upRead 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…
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…
All Business
Pit fire and the smell of wine business was on the table, violet myrtle climbed the wall behind you with tiny fingers, as the corners of your mouth lost themselves into hope-stained curves. Our shoes, black and brown, tapped redRead more…
The Calling
This is the movement deep within, the voice of the self, the voice of Krishna, the calling of the divine, urging you to open, to delight, to unfold. I want to live in you the way fire lives in theRead more…