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

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…

The Dog Star

    Climbing a glass mountain lit from within by the Dog Star still over the horizon a faint yet distinct blue-white glow the rest of…

Voting 2018

            Standing in line outside a primary school library waiting for an open booth, cars filling up the small parking lot.  The…

Imaginary Lines

    Here along the bank of a dry riverbed where spring runoff once boiled and gargled now dust sifts in near-constant wind only close attention…

January House Literary Journal

Poetry | Art | Prose

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"

January House Literary Journal

Poetry | Art | Prose

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"