Mars Dives into Venus Pools In my tiny, ground floor, inner-city apartment that I shared with my wife and new-born daughter I dreamt I was a young Azteca...
The Mother's Gift a long time ago, on one full moon night, I had a dream. Facing south, my footsteps traced the path of the pilgrim. We walked a dark path up a...
EARTH MADONNA 3 You humans have roots that sink in more deeply than you know Some things are older than knowledge & your roots don’t hold much Just a handful...
La Corpa Dia (My Body) for Rumi At my birth, time and space began. When I choose to cease my existence, time and space will end. Space is the extent of my...
Many Windows into a Holographic Universe for Alice Di Micele A constellation of mercury lay beaded on a flagstone floor. Just as a star is a hologram of the...
EVERY WORD Your every word is a spell for breaking silence Every letter seems to be tearing me open & spilling my news There’s nowhere left for me to live ...
Rain. Man Dreaming Eagle, Dreaming Salmon, Dreaming Woman before dams and canneries Released from the prison of density I embraced the freedom of wind. Arching...
a Toad Hunter's Night in the Tortalitas Cicadas call the rain with their incessant chatter. Monsoons build mountains on the flashing horizon. Wind tears at...
SHORT LIVED A male brewer’s blackbird I can see by his ivory colored eyes has claimed the highest perch in the apple tree & is announcing his presence with a...
ALL WE DO The hungry clouds in the window are nibbling away the blue in the sky We laugh so hard because we’re happy tears roll away from our eyes Our love...
Mesa Land Chaco Canyon, Poetry of Homage for Joy Harjo Mesas like tall ships jut From this undulating plain To touch the white feathers And hishi of the sky's...
ONLY LOVE 2 Some people wonder where you go when you die We come here where love brings us together Love is the full intensity of absolute justice You can...
Burying the Shaman In memory of Roger A few puffs of down floated across a lapis sea sky washed clean by three days of southern spring rain. Paradise lay at...
I opened an email called New Graphic Site & it redirected me just from opening it. It's something called a mail worm so don't open it, no matter who it says...
BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD The female brown-headed cowbird lays her eggs in the nests of other birds Her young hatch out large & grow more rapidly then the smaller...
A START Climbing the old apple tree out back The tree’s becoming taller & grows more branches the higher I climb Suddenly as I’m pulling myself up the...
DEATH SCREAM Standing in each other’s arms by the glass door we see a yellow flash leaving the apple tree & darting to a stem that holds a bright red poppy ...
Dreaming a Dead Friend on a Silent Centipede In memory of Roger We were stretched out like pouncing cats hunched over the handle bars of our spindly racing...
KEEP COMING ALIVE I could say I’ve been living in the winds that blow in & out of my windpipe I could say I’ve been living in the waters that flow gently...
Dreaming a Dead Friend on a Silent Centipede In memory of Roger We were stretched out like pouncing cats hunched over the handle bars of our spindly racing...
Magnetic Pilgrimage for Alison Hawthorne Deming On a dark moon, after Tucson's Magnetic Poetry Festival, when the pollen count left my lungs feeling as fragile...
PANIC Two friends were walking a winding path in the mountains when they were surrounded by a heavy mist They heard some noises but took them to be the...
INSIDE OUT I don’t want a drink I want the whole bottle I’m on your side but you don’t make it easy You target me with my own life I’ve been hit please...
SUBVERSIVE What’s more subversive than a love poem that the authorities can’t stamp out or keep from undermining their authority? Once we thought we might...
REACH ME Learn like a seed Speak like a harvest Send your roots deeply into the darkness & your leaves brightly into the light Death plays with our heads like...
Dawn in the Kitchen Have you ever listened to the water boil in a kettle on the stove? A coil glowing orange peeks from underneath a silver pot, rattling. Or,...
WHERE YOU FIND IT Going for a walk in the day breaking New Mexico desert we encounter dark bodied beetles standing on their heads Are they keeping some of...
Returning Bodhisatva, for Sherman Alexie When you are billions of years old what is that fragment of a moment we call a life time? The dust of my bones blanket...
the Five Elements of Blossoming for Kabir "Love is the only thing of value in this world," says Kabir. Dry July winds blew across dead cotton fields, and I...
A POLLUTED SOUL O where are the pinkish purplish blossoms of the redwood violet we once found by the torn up corner? They’re thriving right here in the shade...
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