Without compassion all acts are head trips. A posturing for the ego’s mirror-mirror on the wall. Life demands the soul’s involvement...

Gaily grey races the river. Endless dancing wavelets roil, flash a glimpse of white petticoat as if on a fine picnic outing to the sea to...

THIS MORNING a pelting swash of snow creates a new world, thickens on twisted branches, mutes sounds of car and plane, brings forth new...

To be forever dancing on the breeze, on the breeze. . . On the breeze of early evening, Till October’s frost came creeping, And the...

All cows are brown, black, gray, white, and overweight. All the cows in the world are between Portland, Oregon and Lewiston, Idaho. Cows...

I am in the mood to write, To search out ideas, to work upon skeletons of our speech In order to turn the mundane into the sublime – May...

Is this the last time You will say that cute word Or do that silly dance. Is this the last time You hang on my apron at dinner, And knock...

Before we are awake Our bodies smile, Knowing the colors and sounds Of nature. Trees so pure green I smile like a 7th grader At a...

It seems so calm, so understated, this disintegration of my life which comes with official notification. “Evidence of malignancy" . . ....

Two blue rivers flowing to one Bringing down banks Past black roots We float Deeper than sky Waters fall, white renewal Reborn over the...

What's in the heart of a man grown old? Only the man can say. One may see him as mean and cold, Another as wrinkled and gray. A third may...

Open the cupboard and what do you see? A veritable skyline of seasonings, As venerable as Manhattan as surprising as Chicago There they...

See, they're walking again Not hand in hand Watch closer They're heart to heart Confessing and sharing In deep quick code What they can...

Pirouetting and dancing No chains and no rules Only flight. I am jealous as I lie in your arms Earthbound. I must let you go I must be...

Some thing was wrong this year. The figs did not ripen before the first frost. Every mole escaped. All the pumpkins came out quart-sized....

We have more than we need, yet we want more and more, when some families have close to nothing, but a family to care for. We have our TVs...