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Tree Branch and Crow
Crows fill the windswept shoreline, black silhouettes against the sky. The sea is gunmetal gray, with sunlight breaking through rose-tinted…
Wingless Angel
Lifetimes longer than the age of stone, even from sea’s beginning, I counsel with tides, trace runes on the sky,…
Silent Stone
Earth trembles in rain soaked ground, yet the sea is calm, the old trees heavy with many winters. The peace…
Soul Fishing
The sunlit path, orange-gold on the sea, one lone fisherman trolling the depths for the wisdom that might free you…
Quiet Sea
After a deep ebb tide the sea slowly floods, covering the mystery with saltwater healing. My heart rests between rise…
Awake to the World
Into the wordless silence I spirit-walk the new day, bare feet to ground, eyes open in early light. Shaped and…
Face Unveiled
In silent dark the soul rests in solace hidden from city lights. The healing night and flooding sea, God’s face…
One Thought
Today there is one path, one tide flowing before me. The greater powers move sun and moon, earth and sea,…
Ancient Shores
Greet the morning where stone touches tide, quiet as mountains rimming the sea; discord dissolved, healed the fractures, heart cleansed…
Surrender
The briny smell of weed clinging to bare rock, swirls of water rushing south as ebb tide drains the inland…
For These Moments
Moonstruck beauty of the sea, wind-driven from flood tide’s peak, chased south along the old salt veins of gravity and…
Only So Much Time
Black silhouettes of trees against dark night beauty, tidal rip of moon and sea. I lay down the weights of…
Beneath the Scrim
I draw breath between swells, the rise and fall of the city sea in the rhythm of a metronome. Rivers…
Sea Island Brooding
Pale grasses yellow, wind-cured after months of rain. Waves lash the headland beneath gunmetal clouds. Sea birds flash white in…
Dark Water Fishing
Light breaks on the sea as men fish the ebb. Boats drift backward on the tide’s pull while I hunt…
Night Sky Message
“As light travels, and silence heals, the hand of God brightens the night sky,” a message written in code, lit with one spark of distant
Between Worlds
Sitting in darkness, I live between worlds of day and night, opening passages in the earth house, as I quietly render the awakened and holy
Keeping Watch
Moon lover, devotee of the stars, I keep watch on the winter sky, welcoming darkness where light burns brightest, and stars sing to the children
One Embrace
I step from the cold cave of regret and find myself among the living. Past and future dissolve as mist rises off the water. Disciples
War Cry
Feeding my animal body, I eat prisoners’ food, listen to the warden’s drone on static-filled speakers. Though grown soft, my spirit body still flies through
Sweet Milk
Nestled in the half-moon valley, night clouds drift past in rose-tinted skies. Stirred by Earth’s turn to the sweet milk of light, the land awakens
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