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

Sunday Liberty

    The week would gather Sunday to free itself.   Each day had a gathering task one would bring a poem   another choose a location…

No Story

                      Sipping coffee in an unfamiliar shop in shades faking celebrity or notoriety he noticed a slim…

Space Travel

    From a plane window high over the brown Midwest at flight speed we seem to be drifting,  the land slowly creeping under our wings…

Fisher Fish

    No more than halfway down the page we quit reading maybe skim a few lines more but likely less giving up on finding that…

A Dawn Rain

    A patch loosely sown between night and day covering their imaginary edges misses nothing in the dark or in the light finds all the dry…

Hall Standup

                We’ve been waiting all morning well not waiting exactly we’ve been busy but in an obscure corner of…

Casting Off

                      “Although understanding itself is time,    understanding does not depend      on its own arrival.”…

The Value of Sparrows

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Emmanuel Levinas

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Fourteen Lines

A Sonnet Obsession

LogoSophia Magazine

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St. John One: One

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Parhelion

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The Line Break

A poetry & wine blog

The Dōgen Institute

Disseminating the Teachings of Eihei Dōgen Zenji

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Third Wednesday Magazine

A Quarterly Journal of Literary and Visual Arts

Ancient Forest Zen

Dedicated to the liberation of all beings.

The Value of Sparrows

Writings of a Christian Mystic

Atticus Review

Begin Anyway

Elizabeth Ü

Writer | Number Cruncher | Yoga Teacher | Community Citizen | Nature Lover | Asker of Questions (etc)

The Postmodern Peripatetic

Ethics, Hermeneutics, Historiography

Emmanuel Levinas

"The face is a living presence; it is expression...The face speaks"

Fourteen Lines

A Sonnet Obsession

LogoSophia Magazine

A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love

St. John One: One

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Parhelion

Literary Magazine

The Line Break

A poetry & wine blog

The Dōgen Institute

Disseminating the Teachings of Eihei Dōgen Zenji

best poetry blog in the cosmos

4 out of 5 dentists recommend this WordPress.com site

Scott Edward Anderson's Poetry Blog

"One reader is a miracle; two, a mass movement." - Walter Lowenfels

failed haiku - a journal of English Senryu

Editor Bryan Rickert with founder and now Video Editor Mike Rehling

Third Wednesday Magazine

A Quarterly Journal of Literary and Visual Arts

Ancient Forest Zen

Dedicated to the liberation of all beings.