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Wandering Off

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On a Cold Morning After the Spring Storm

With mountains

sheathed in crystalline mist,

while all is cloaked in white and still,

as Winter lingers into the new season,

for the gifts it gives to the ground,

there is only the wait,

and the breathing, the fire,

and the warm c...

3 months ago
5

Upon the Death of a Friend

For Ansel

There is a certain lilt

in the whole of things,

so demure

yet so threatening to

the letter and the law

it must subtle itself in life forms

and experiences

that take hold in the

unguarded spaces of the heart.

The lesson i...

3 months ago
8

Keystone

To be free

from the darker arts,

the contriving of forms reversely onto the

foreground of natural history.

Soothsayers gazing backwards,

trading the naked now for

trinkets of lore and laud,

we trouble ourselves with tradition,

we gl...

3 months ago
7
5

Mystic

If you are one

the wild God

wants for his own.

If you are drawn

into the silence, near

the bottom, along the edges.

If you have borne up under

some great catechism

and now are released of it,

into the world,

sure of not knowing

y...

3 months ago
9

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...

7 months ago
6

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