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An Imaginary Eye

“I didn’t need to see it, I’ll forget it, of course, as Light and Dark as my earthly shirt.” – Ernst Meister You can’t change your…

On Original Spin

Summer’s chalky first-light moves in without fanfare, golden only at the tips of the highest trees then peeks through random spaces between leaves where it will…

Falling Away

Some say mirrors and camera lens don’t lie having never learned to speak but there are many strange offerings a Truth is tall flightless bird sometimes…

On Taking Off

Settling into a window seat one story up from the tarmac while other passengers file in we’re behind a wing so will observe our common-sense planet…

FX

We’re standing near a raspberry patch watching a bee-raid of little capitalists taking what they want and flying off with no thought of their leavings. You…

Original Faces

“A painting of a rice cake does not satisfy hunger.” – Dogen They met for dinner once a month at the Painted Rice Cake fussed with…

Urban Listening

When you take a load off furniture is where you put it. Park it here, they always say those otherwise silent almost immobile 4-legged friends who…

Sea Life

someone I thought I knew has been standing on a high bluff for years watching waves drive onto a beach pushed up by unseen shallows pushed…

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"