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Wandering Off

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The Great Wheel

Santa Barbara Botanic Gardens 2025

All of everything

is a great wheel

turning, vast, of all galaxies,

every universe, of which

ours is most certainly small.

Human time is the

flick of a finch feather and

our inhabitance will keep

a...

5 months ago
4

The Poems: Advent for a Wolf-Child

Star River over the Tetons, August 2022

I am a shepherd

waiting on stars,

brooding

for this age

on a bright one.

Each generation must resolve, you see,

we must, again,

make our way through this mystery.

The same old greatest story...

5 months ago
7
2

The Poems: Paint

I reckoned the hues of autumn

upon the house;

robust crimson,

muted green, dry gold

on russett brown.

I brushed with currant,

willow, sage, and earth

in the warm afternoons of October.

To obey the visitations of a recurring dream, t...

7 months ago
2

The Poems: Wildflowers

Castilleja in the horse pasture, October 8, 2025

The wildflowers

are striving into October as

sunlight still conspires with the

soil, with the

hidden in dark places.

Those domesticated and once potted are

drying on top of the compost...

8 months ago
5

The Poems: Crimson

Quaking Aspen, Elevenmile Canyon, 2025

Autumn is of letting go, returning

to the ground in slow surrender.

We rise, then fall, once green,

now crimson, pouring out to

earth like the blood of the covenant.

We wonder most in autumn if...

8 months ago
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