Sitting on a hill
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Living in Sky
Sitting on a hill
Thursday, November 14, 2024
Elsewhere
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
A Trick of Daybreak
A trick of daybreak
caught us in the shadows
between gray and blue,
our slide almost complete
since Franklin keyed the storm,
nostalgic for the dark,
and soon to return
to whispers in candlelight.
We'll call it afterglow.
Wednesday, November 06, 2024
In a Country of Strangers
Sunday, November 03, 2024
Early November
Friday, November 01, 2024
Sunday, October 27, 2024
In the Company of Oaks
Holding their leaves |
In the company of oaks,
bright-bronzed and taller
than the lowering sun,
slow dancing in the chill wind,
last trees in the woods still awake,
holding their leaves
when most of the others
have turned themselves
into pillars of light,
the oaks holding their leaves
as if their lives depended on it,
sighing in honeyed light,
holding their leaves
close to their bones,
loving what is mortal
while they can,
and when the time comes,
letting it go.
—after Mary Oliver's In Blackwater Woods
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
In a Fallow Field
in the goldenrod field
bearded by autumn
mature and hoary
at the end of function
in the warming sun
I waited
and drifted back
into that dream
where my daughter
was not dead.
Sunday, October 20, 2024
The Earth Rolls Back
Saturday, October 19, 2024
Sundown in the Maples
Under a sugar
In my eightieth October
I think I know what's coming—
This world will become more and more beautiful
Until I can't stand it anymore
And vanish into it,
One with the earth in the end.
—with lines by D. Nurkse
Friday, October 18, 2024
Take Down the Sun
Take down the sun.
Put it in your heart.
Take down the moon.
Put it in your belly.
Take down the Big Dipper.
Merge with the Northern Star.
— based on ancient Taoist texts, translated by Deng Ming-Dao