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…
Forgetting Vowels
Sitting briefly in rooms as weekend guests while the walls and furniture faded with frequent overlooking with being merely checked off dust on window ledges noted…
Cherishing Mother’s Day
Mother remembers what it was like when we were too young to remember After many passages we begin to remember also ours and hers almost matching…
Counted On
young passengers on long car trips would sometimes count birds or fenceposts to fight off boredom the mind making order when it seemed there was only…
Training to Walk the Rim of the World
A stout rope strung a foot off the ground in my neighbor’s yard, stretching from early morning far into the night is for practice. Kafka isn’t…
poems by Rachel Loden
From her collection called Hotel Imperium. not recent, and focused on Nixon, but timely now also…..
The Dog Star 