Five Words
A long-ago hill-climb unfinishedback into wordlessnessits ground as summit a dozen years is nothinginbreath, outbreathoars flying forward over water when elements won’t arriveabandon fear and longinga…
The Artlessness of Forgetting
(after Duo Duo) It was just hereits shaped absence hoversa tease, a playful provocationremembering isn’t finding and reversingforgetting’s course, which has no courseno art, no processa…
Dry Bones
If it seems we’re wandering, we are. Just passed the last gas station (it reminded us) this side of the mountains. There’s too much scenery to…
E Pluribus
Rounded on itself in abstraction, heavy with official sanction, honest as George Washington the virtuous slave owner whose image is on its front, the image of…
Leaf Blower Season
Leaf Blower Season Leaf blower season is largely clean-upafter spring optimism and summer excessleaves have changed colors, come down to usout of their green heights, waving,…
The Service
He’s been at it long enough to have become the service alone on a caged court standing a few steps outside one baseline next to a…
Finish Lines
Admittedly arbitrary, they show usif we’ve arrived or failed toagreed on by entering a race. Don’t recall signing up?With each breath we draw we re-uphearing it…
Allowances
Trees wear seasons as we doa row of maples along a fencewatching and learning what each season allowsgoing with it, spending or withdrawingas in these October…
Working the Edges
A chemistry set in a yellow wooden boxwith a book of experimentswaiting or seeming to waitin a basement room in a childhood hometo be explored waiting…
Evading Practice
Yeah, yeah, we know we must practicepatience, understanding, compassionor our lives will remain mostly suffering we’ve listened, partly heard the wisewho say so. We’ve even tried…
The Dog Star 