Ancient Circle
Now I awaken, grief and fear drained from my body, words of prayer green as summer rising with the faith of sunlight. Like a black winged crow brooding on the roof top I pick at scavenger bits, cawing to the world my dissatisfaction, but today I am stripped, open like a river, the voice of […]
Dispatch from the Front
There are terrors that restrain the heart with iron fence where open land once graced the sky. You see it in a child’s eyes, feel it in your chest when theft becomes an option. It’s too late to blame, only time for the music you can make, your dispatch from the front opening the heart […]
Rising on the Old Rope
The uncertainty of night and random dreams pass, the empty bucket of morning echoing dully as it lifts from the deeper darkness, drawing up the cool draught of what rises on the old rope to the trembling light of day.
Endless Page
The words I speak or write, do they really matter beneath the waterfall of life, all the tragedy and loss and wandering in the dark? I have so much fear I don’t acknowledge, so much I hoped for, wanting the world to answer my longing. When I listen I hear the old voice within the […]
Moon of Our Gravitation
You raise your cup assured I will receive it. This gesture says it all, how we are together with no need to tear down, to feed the beast of not belonging. Some days the tide runs strong, highs and lows much greater. They say it is the moon and I wonder about swirling water and […]
Chum for the Gods
We’re chum for the gods, dropped into the sea to lure out the beauty stored in deep water, from before time began when only mineral and fire ruled the earth. She can’t resist the sparkling scales of our foolish wit, the way we twist and turn in shifting currents, singing to her of the times […]
Becoming Like Water
We can drive our fate into the wall of the world or find our way like water around rock. Beyond the wall a spread of forest and rushing wind, the sound of rivers and clatter of bird wing. Soften like water, follow the stone path, a sheer fall of open air, the freedom of light. […]
Return to the Forest
I am the face behind the face, the watcher behind eyes. I’ll slip this skin like a bright fish glistening in the sun, wriggling free of your hands back into the deep pool, a glint of gold and silver darting through the stream. That color, that liquid, the shining skin, that is me but not […]
When You Choose
Sometimes you choose and sometimes you don’t, you chase after life when all you want may be hidden beside you. Go ahead and make your plans; somewhere along the road where the pavement gives out you might have to walk, and what you didn’t choose may find you, the fear of that sucking like a […]
Spring Trio
Still in the Calm The onshore breeze chimes through broad leafed trees with sound like a wave curling to shore; tender light, the sound of a bird, something resting still in the calm, ready to awaken as the deep sea rises. *** Keeping Faith The path is long with steep grades and sharp angles. What […]
Blank Tablet
The morning is white as if nothing were written on the tattered parchment, as if sky awaited new color, new clouds, new waves on the ocean, new trees to break open in shining green. All of it new, and you sitting here with me, what will we write on the blank tablet of the world? […]
Alone and Listening
This is my time, before the flood and rising water, before the wind and shaking trees, alone in the dark listening to the silence, gathering what I am into a bundle of prayer.
Easter
Cold and wet feel like home in the spring passage; clouds piling against the mountains, the quiet mauve of plum leaves, above the streets a gaudy pink. Why don’t I color like the cherry blossom? Does the earth bear a deeper joy even when suffering? The hard task is to lay open the heart like […]
How We Love
Your hand in the night before sleep, before waking, patting my hair so lightly, your fingers telling the story of how we love, the song we sing secure in silence.
Winter and Spring
Life Within Smoke from a chimney, the faint spread of light, cold hand of winter on bare trees, thorns exposed on the flowerless rose; life within an ember opening our eyes to see in darkness the shape of things to come. **** Spring Rain Trees pulse and wave, green flags fluttering; the gentle touch of […]