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Oregon Oak
Consider the Oregon Oak Vast and strong Upright yet yielding She rises Branches turning This way and that Finding her bearings Home to Lichen Bees Birds and squirrels A myriad…
This Furrowed Brow and Lined Face
I know these features so well, I no longer see them. That permanant crease between my eyebrows; perhaps more a result of reaching to see, eyes squinting on the horizon……
Weeds
Like Nature’s Mad Insurrectionists they continue to arrive Unchecked Outside of all reason in numbers Without apology or regret Of any kind They are in a world of their own…
Spinning in the Dreamer’s Eye
Sweet garden spinning in the dreamer’s eye All her lands were hidden in the trees The universe was pleased and sent the dreamer back to sleep now we must awake…
The Power of the Familiar
Wrapped about us like a glove invisible through our eyes Yet, essential to our being Certain. “As familiar as the back of my hand” It is ours. Irrevocably. In some…
Conversation
It is at once exhilerating and complex Takes time to readjust but not. Speaking the clarity of the intent and subtle awareness. So that another might by luck or instinct…
Cycles and Circles
So much algae bloom: strip of blue green singing to the sun. Winter winds blasting oceans into high mist against rocky coastlines. Still night air holding back time in some…
Threshold… s
It is as if at some point so far unknown to you until it reaches present time Things are unfolding. On some level of being some place of knowing things…
Juxtaposition
So many things within the context of day to day Hold us Whole Which, If suddenly eroded Through whatever cause Leave us breathless barely able to survive Thrown up upon…
What We Could Use Here is a New Mark Twain
Standing in the freezing Talking about cops – and bribes and how they can be taken or not From Senegal to Santa Clara The language changes only. If we were…