Today is different than yesterday wake me up and let me dream the day through eyes wide open chimes blowing leaves skirting 'cross the ground as if embarrassed and shy Read more »

“Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.” –Anthony De Mello This is from a book called “Taking Flight.” But there is a book he wrote, that has become the most important book in my life. I have read it maybe 6 times over the past 8 years. And [...] Read more »

it is coming in the mist creeping over the hills kissing needles on thirsty firs beetles scurry through the parched grass aphid children splashing sliding down stalks as high as the coyote paw returning home in the morning light the weighted scent of the distant ocean gently flows through the window cracked and kisses the [...] Read more »

life is strange and life is wonderful and it doesn’t go any way you thought it would slow the rules go stopping to say hello then bustle and bump and rush to pass by because black is white and the sun can turn blue the oceans turn lemon as i swim deep with you for [...] Read more »

one hundred chinese poems staring back at me rhythm sticks lay on the ground dark aborigine a collection of gypsy jazz and a shirt that is much too small waiting to be sent to a child in the fall this pattern is my prison of walls myself i make of rhythms like a curse on [...] Read more »

the sky was turning lighter shade of black-becoming-blue. venus sitting right above the mountain ridgeline off to the east the big mountains separating us from the real desert. not the hum of the southern california freeway at 5:30 in the morning, but the giant quiet desert, so silent and calm at night, so hard and [...] Read more »