Clearing Fences
we sip chilled wine on a deck-like terrace in autumn sunlight’s failing warmth in the distance the low rumble of the falls a light lunch we’ve…
we sip chilled wine on a deck-like terrace in autumn sunlight’s failing warmth in the distance the low rumble of the falls a light lunch we’ve…
In 50 years, she answers, though not asked She wears a white lab coat that filters but doesn’t to hide her light I know God…
Late evening light sorts the leaves of an old apple tree beside the backyard deck an heirloom variety whose name I almost recall… Pippin. Newton Pippin. Grown…
not mine exactly, those unchosen remaining in the odd half-life of possibles careers considered and abandoned their corridors un-walked my tread a ghostly absence among…
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/04/27/what-rousseau-knew-about-solitude/? A great writer misunderstanding solitude points readers toward a deeper, true understanding.
Reading a few lines almost at random turning pages by handfuls in a paperback left on a counter in…
She’d set up her mental easel high on the beach where compliant sand would give an inch or so in welcome she’d wait for the…
We’re wondering if it will yet appear or merely stiff us empty like Godot a life’s concise index foot-loose searchable by whim or purpose indiscrete…
Bars across the mirror partially obscured his face he looks older, weary, wary battered but not defeated expecting another blow gives no hint…
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The Poetry of Emotion
Comparative literature about Poetry
Writings of a Christian Mystic
Begin Anyway
Writer | Number Cruncher | Yoga Teacher | Community Citizen | Nature Lover | Asker of Questions (etc)
Founded 2015
Ethics, Hermeneutics, Historiography
"The face is a living presence; it is expression...The face speaks"
A Sonnet Obsession
A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Literary Magazine
A poetry & wine blog
Hsin-hsin ming
Disseminating the Teachings of Eihei Dōgen Zenji
4 out of 5 dentists recommend this WordPress.com site
"One reader is a miracle; two, a mass movement." - Walter Lowenfels
Editors Bryan Rickert and Hemapriya Chellappan with founder and now Video Editor Mike Rehling