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March 2014

March 30, 2014

What Healing Looks Like

I remember as a teenager, home alone one afternoon, listening over and over to David...

October 2013

October 24, 2013

To Becoming Silent

by Pablo Neruda (translation by David Breeden) Now, let's all count to twelve, then keep...

September 2013

September 26, 2013

Seeing, from the Cheap Seats

There are gifts that come of breathing, that come of blood driving through veins, ...

September 19, 2013

Autumn Light, Surprise

So, evening fell on you, didn’t it? And you did not know what day....

June 2013

June 13, 2013

Here, In This Flow

The turtles go out of their water this time of year, slow on roadways, slow...

May 2013

May 23, 2013

Benediction for the Wind (on the occasion of a killer tornado)

What better way to get people praying than to remind us of random chance? What...

April 2013

April 25, 2013

Elegy for April 22 and Richie Havens

Some days are like others And some days Richie Havens dies. It's more Than a...

April 18, 2013

National Poem In Your Pocket Day #pocketpoem

It’s Poem In Your Pocket Day, and like a springtime bird still dazed by the...

April 05, 2013

A is for…Afebrile.

I was braced for a strange and challenging week with my partner out-of-state for a...

April 04, 2013

Serious Life

Life, you’ve noticed, is serious. In all seriousness, it kicks your butt, then, in all...

March 2013

March 21, 2013

Apophatic Project

How to say she would run the horse beneath the low branches of the Thorny...

March 14, 2013

Why I am a Unitarian Universalist

At college I found a small group of humanists who called themselves Unitarian Universalists. They...

February 2013

February 28, 2013

Subtile Body

“There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom.” Frederich Nietzsche Hard...

February 21, 2013

Seeds

The cattails I brought you have burst long ago & sent their fluff seeding wherever...

February 15, 2013

Hats & Maps

1. (in the thick) Once an argument could cut like a two-edged sword. But that’s...