poems as hand- and foot-holds on a glass mountain

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How To Eat

Poems get written from watching closely as things happen each its own yet entangled with the rest of us  and working with those links. Most experiences…

Over Here

A wall of clocks in an antique shop consuming the time they make self-feeders accurate within a century or two no two read quite the same…

After Easter

  salvation offered needs another name whose syllables like fingers search the patch of mud we trample daily as unchanged   not needing labels useless loss…

O Reader

    O reader, poem’s art-imated ear settles as ours not effortless but joined to our confusions as her own, not clear but clearing, wanting all…

Ingots of Silence

  From some foreign mental refinery melted and molded bricks of stuff fall into our hands out past iron doors glowing radiant of light and heat…

Playing Us

            A moon tonight red as a hammered thumb a clown’s impossible nose held in place with an obvious string Another…

Appendices

             Extras, stand over by the wall prettiest up front, smart ones in the back in fact the smart ones can…

V E R S E and I M A G E

being and becoming

Amethyst Review

New Writing Engaging with the Sacred

BILL'S BLOG

my weekly diary for my friends

Lifesaving Poems

Essential poems for hard times

The Dewdrop

read deep, breathe easy

Nyohō Zen

the look, feel, and stuff of the Dharma

Halfway Down the Stairs

Quarterly poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction

humanfactor

Philosophical reading, thinking, writing

The Flummoxed

A Writer’s Journey

Intelligent Christian Spirituality

Dr. Bruce Tallman's reflections on spirituality

The Kyoto School of Philosophy

True Emptiness, Wondrous Being

Litwit

Comparative literature about Poetry

The Value of Sparrows

Writings of a Christian Mystic

Emmanuel Levinas

"The face is a living presence; it is expression...The face speaks"

V E R S E and I M A G E

being and becoming

Amethyst Review

New Writing Engaging with the Sacred

BILL'S BLOG

my weekly diary for my friends

Lifesaving Poems

Essential poems for hard times

The Dewdrop

read deep, breathe easy

Nyohō Zen

the look, feel, and stuff of the Dharma

Halfway Down the Stairs

Quarterly poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction

humanfactor

Philosophical reading, thinking, writing

The Flummoxed

A Writer’s Journey

Intelligent Christian Spirituality

Dr. Bruce Tallman's reflections on spirituality

The Kyoto School of Philosophy

True Emptiness, Wondrous Being

Litwit

Comparative literature about Poetry

The Value of Sparrows

Writings of a Christian Mystic

Emmanuel Levinas

"The face is a living presence; it is expression...The face speaks"