Who Will Find Me
Who will find me hidden away in the warmth of this dark winter cave? Dreams to be dreamt, visions to be honored, the slow eating of fat and the quiet heartbeat. When the first salmon toil over rock bedded streams, when snow falls from the full laden branches of evergreen, when sun finds its way […]
You May Let Go
The bright light of autumn shines on the yellowing trees, a steady breeze stirring the leaves with awakening. We’ve come round on the season so many times before yet each time it’s new, as if we’ve never seen this flutter of gold. There’s freedom in the air to rise or fall as you might choose, […]
Hidden by the Dawn
Somewhere in the night you’re waking, feeling the press of the world while in the arc above you shines the morning star. The sky brightens pale blue as you stir in the long transit back from the dreamtime. You assemble the pieces careworn and fragile of the person you’ve become to navigate this life. Cup […]
Thread of the Eternal
Who can take your crown said the sun rising in the south? The earth is your lover, the deep sea and morning star your friends. Why give yourself to desolation? As if awakening from a dream, one filled with sorrow and despair, I let the great power enter once more, the golden thread of the […]
Yet Blank Pages
Now I’ll gather from the darkness for you my old friend and ally a tracing of what may come untarnished out of the east. Too easy to lament, to break down on the journey while out on the edges a lone hawk waits high in a tree, a silver salmon breaks with salt and begins […]
Seeds of the Future
Bare branches call to me, striven of their summer glory by the winds of autumn. Crows mock their barrenness from nearby rooftops as burnt orange remnants cling for these last few days before falling to earth. Below the asphalt there is another dark where lifeblood drops into the old patience. There time is for dreaming, […]
Veins of Joy
Standing like a tree in autumn, rain in my face with light fading, I search down into my roots, wondering if the veins of joy will gift me again. Those lonely people in their thatched roof cottages, the rail thin boy walking the roads with a stream of dumb cattle, sleeping in the rain, hungry […]
Behind the Gate
Fog settles on the valley as autumn fades, leaves turn and fall in the time of letting go. I sit warm by the fire, at peace in the change like an old monk, preferring the calm, the descent into root. The world calls this empty, the slow slip into darkness, yet here in the quiet […]
Deep Rock Island
The night is a mystery with tides swelling past in dark shadow, Mars a red pearl shining, the dew so heavy each blade of grass beads luminescent. The trees awake with sun gone down, sharing knowledge with the stars. I could drop into the sea, wrap myself in darkness or journey with the trees to […]
Search for Joy
I searched for joy, I did, sometimes in the wrong places and some that held a measure. I searched in the sorrow of what passed and painful births of what was to come. The trees gave to me in their unheard voices, as did the streams and rock strewn hills. I thought I’d find it […]
Woven Together
The weight shifts, the stone of grief lifts for breath. Stories of sorrow press the earth as lights come on across the city and dawn tints the sky. We are many yet in our pain we are one, one family of the poor and wretched, the rich and famous, woven like cloth by our joy […]
Like a River
Grief runs like a river beneath thin layers of sand and stone, carrying stories of pain and failed hope to an ocean of silence. The great heart of the world includes this ocean and river pulsing with rhythms of sorrow and new life born again in the garden of the gods. […]
Drink the Rain
Breathing more easily the rain soaked ground sheds the dull brown of summer for a pale hint of green. Arising like Lazarus mosses come alive with fir and madrone; the slow patter on our roof peaceful as a lullaby. There is no altar but the earth, no religion that returns us like a cloud filled […]
Under the Miller’s Wheel
Who am I fooling, the earth broke me, ground me like winter wheat for the coarsest bread. “Grind some more” I said with bravado and the earth was glad to oblige, to pass me under the miller’s wheel until fine-sifted flour. “Now make me food for all that lives,” and again the earth was glad […]
Candles
Certain only of uncertainty I browse the rooftops with black feathered crows, seeking sustenance among the ignored and forgotten. The ancient temple in ruins, the one to be a dim-lit dream, yet within on the altar of the forever now shine a thousand candles, lit by untold prayers of thankfulness. […]