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

Posts by place9011

Fisher Fish

    No more than halfway down the page we quit reading maybe skim a few lines more but likely less giving up on finding that…

A Dawn Rain

    A patch loosely sown between night and day covering their imaginary edges misses nothing in the dark or in the light finds all the dry…

Hall Standup

                We’ve been waiting all morning well not waiting exactly we’ve been busy but in an obscure corner of…

Casting Off

                      “Although understanding itself is time,    understanding does not depend      on its own arrival.”…

No Lake

  Late afternoon out on No Lake in a canoe of red molded plastic though in spirit she resembles rustic native canoes made of birchbark patches…

The Decline and Fall

“When the elements disintegrate, where do you go?” – No Barrier #47 Eating curly rice noodles with freeze-dried veggies from a small aluminum cup sitting on…

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"