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February 2024

February 03, 2024

some things you just can’t fix

We talked around it not about it the elephant in the room: the corpse in...

April 2021

April 08, 2021

Poem: “the fox stands under the streetlight “

Had a visitor to the neighborhood on Sunday who seemed worth commemorating in a poem....

June 2020

June 15, 2020

Honeysuckle and Fireflies

Yes, the plague is killing thousands! and Yes, the oppressors are brutal! and Yes, the...

January 2020

January 20, 2020

“You Will Not Be Left Alone” (52 Make-Up, Week 2)

Divine voices work mysteriously

January 06, 2020

January Robins (52 Make-Up, Week 1)

but I am a magician, a poet in the realm of acts and what I...

December 2018

December 21, 2018

Not Much Light But It Beats The Darkness

Are we on the watch for the light, or for the darkness? The whole phenomenon...

September 2017

September 25, 2017

A Eulogy For My Father, Mark Swiss

We have hopes about an afterlife. I guess some of us have fears -- Dad...

April 2017

April 30, 2017

“Riddle Under Foot” (Poem, 52 Make-up Week 16)

They scatter me and then cut me down but I rise again

March 2017

March 20, 2017

“Walking the Dog in the Equinox Twilight” (Poem, “52 Make-Up” Week 11)

I'm going to try to show something about revision, and how a rough bunch of...

March 12, 2017

“Sarasvati” (Song, “52 Makeup” Week 9)

This is the first time I've written anything along the lines of a chant or...

March 01, 2017

“Did it taste the same?” (Poem, “52 Makeup” Week 8)

The scent of the alarm The sound of a hot pepper The taste of a...

February 2017

February 14, 2017

“details” (A Poem, “52 Makeup” Week 6)

Rhythm can be a more subtle form of poetic organization than rhyme. This week's entry...

January 2017

January 16, 2017

“Inconsistent Me” (A Poem – Week 2 of “52 Makeup”)

Two days ago, 70 degrees Today, snow and ice And you insist that I be...

February 2016

February 22, 2016

Poem: “a raffish sermon”

that you exist is proof that the universe loves you it brought you into being...

February 09, 2016

Fun a Day Wrapup: Artistic Budding At Imbolc

That phrase lodged in my brain, and made me think about how it may be...

January 2016

January 24, 2016

Fun a Day: “You’re the only one who can be you”

it doesn't reflect what you saw the man in the orange coat waiting at the...

January 06, 2016

Fun a Day: “Beggars in the Streets”

Some days I feel like I'm in a Woodie Guthrie song Some men'll rob you...

January 05, 2016

Fun a Day: “Wood Eye” and “sometime well after midnight”

sometime well after midnight but well before the sun comes up I'm not quite sure...

November 2015

November 23, 2015

Giving Credit

But there's something related and important that doesn't ask us to fake anything, something specific,...

October 2015

October 19, 2015

poem: “this is not a retreat”

I forget again and again and that's difficult but each time I remember I learn...

October 09, 2015

Poem: “a warm day in october”

some days are good some days you've done your work and you're reading a good...

September 2015

September 13, 2015

poems: “the bonsai tree is lopsided” and “Goats!”

my heart, too, is irregular and worn broken and mended many times

September 11, 2015

9/11: The Stage is a Sacred Place

I don't know if you've ever stood on a stage and been the focus of...

August 2015

August 02, 2015

poem: a Lammas pantoum

watching the sunset reflected on a billboard / thinking about summer winding down / I...

July 2015

July 31, 2015

poem: “madly in love with the impossible”

once again I / fell madly in love with the impossible / trying to flirt...