Poetry & More

Boulder Mountain We ask How did I end up here? or wonder why we don’t fit in our family. Later...

Sabbaths - VII Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this...

THE WORDS THEY SING It's the words that sing, they soar and descend. . . . I bow to them...

Today The ordinary miracles begin. Somewhere a signal arrives: “Now,” and the rays come down. A tomorrow has come. Open your...

Four Quartets, East Coker (excerpt) I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be...

All the Words All the words have leaped into air like the cards in Alice, like birds flying, forming, re-...

One day I am sitting in my old body at my old desk reading young essays — essays sent to...

COURAGE Courage is the price which life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release...

Roots – Lucille Clifton https://intrinsicheart.com/roots/ The Burning Bush – Jericho Brown https://www.everseradio.com/the-burning-bush-by-jericho-brown/ The Infinite – Giacomo Leopardi  (translated from the...

Listening My father could hear a little animal step, or a moth in the dark against the screen, and every...