How It Will Be
When lights go down, the wheels stop turning we’ll be left with night sky, morning quiet, emptiness that welcomes. We’ll stop grinding our lives like corn and circle dance with whales. Our feet will drum the earth, the rivers rise with joy. We’ll be humans beneath a star filled sky, wondrous the beholding. […]
Easter
I slowly wake in winter’s cave, body stiff and sore. In gray skies trees bulge with sap, their flowers opening, the earth of another year pressing out into the visible. I drift back to sleep, doze in the soft dark as rivers fall with the joy of ice. A deep blanket pulled back by the […]
Cigarette
Oregon 1988 We stood on the porch, night sounds around us, the darkness comfortable, letting us be together without the impulse to talk electric light would bring. He held a cigarette in one hand as if holding it was a pleasure. After a while he asked me to find a match. I brought one from […]
Old Joe
“It was a shame wen dey kilt dat president” the old man said looking down on the colorful caladias “and dos utter gud men.” It was a shame Joe but what can you do? “Dere you are, holdin dat baby. Wat you tink?” What do I think about what Joe? “Bout what you cain do.” […]
Night’s Apron
Before first light night spreads its apron upon the lap of the earth, gathering starlight; while ant sleeps rare gems of silence glisten in the dark.
Lazarus Rising
Awake to the morning in streaming gray clouds the stark outline of trees breathe in the stillness of sentient Earth speaking softly through early light. The day comes with Spring force, the rush of snow melt flooding the valley with the weight of water, cleaning the deadfall fallen in its path, the Lazarus of winter […]
Walk Together
Humbled by beauty we enter the night holding hands across the bridge back to morning, awake again to light, to the life we have simple and connected. Ten thousand reasons not to love discarded on the long road hard trod and rutted by faith, we walk together. […]
Prepare a Room
The world is full, overflowing with concern. People driven into the sea, earth torn open with jagged mines, oceans clogged with islands of refuse. No one dare empty before the gods of growth, yet thunder beings appear in the sky, cast lightning into the earth. I gather myself on the altar within letting silence overtake […]
Form a Bridge
Along the border of night and day old ghosts walk the valley among the shades of beaver, fox, raven and wolf, their wisdom a voice within to guide us through winter dark. Nothing can replace the wild but in the space where dreams awake we take our place beside the fearless and form a bridge […]
What I Desire
Sheets of rain then open sky, rivers run, spilling their wealth, ironwood trees bulging with desire, spring drawn from the earth well. I am slow to get up sated with the luxury of sleep but I see birds circling and something in me lifts. The destination is far, the road filled with changes yet the […]
Laid to Rest
Thick moss covering the wet ground easily lifted beneath his hands, an opening for the burial. He had come to this space beside the cold flowing creek to bring what was left of their memory; he’d carried the corpse long enough. Wildness called him from the dark as he trekked to his old campsite. Lifting […]
Hip Deep
Long waves of blue-grey clouds connect the valley to the sea. Across the coast range falling rain as branch and creeks begin to fill and the sound of water echoes off tree lined canyons to the soft green spread below. Earth is woven with fine filaments each strand strengthening the next, the wind in the […]
Holiness of the Unseen
Ice shelfs divide, green land turns to desert, winds churn vast ocean. The veil of the mundane torn to fluttering rags reveals the depravity of isolation. From the abode of silence the tuning fork of the almighty gathers sound into one unerring pulse. As the temple of artifice crumbles the holiness of the unseen breaks […]
Ancient Shore
I speak to you in the gray dawn knowing you here in the quiet, there in the cold morning air; between you and I only this moment of sacred space. Path of the immortal, pulsing with energy recreating the ancient shore here and now. […]
Rivers Resist
Smoke rises through brick and clay into a grey morning the color of frost. Ice layers the streets, cold penetrates into our nest beside the gas fire. It takes more than flame to keep the weight of winter off a fearful heart, to stand like old trees faced into the wind, swaying from depth of […]