for D. A. Rural folk seldom have neighbors pop by. I’m lucky one lives next to me. A great Dane lives with her A cat with me— We stay a crow’s call apart, safe inside. She tends the chickens daily at five. I feed the calico at that time. I greet her tossing feed “Hey, […]
Category: Friendship
Elegy for Phil
Phil Hayes was murdered in a public park His killer unknown, the imperfect stranger. The police said it was gang related, All his family knows is –He’s gone He sacrificed his life for a friend, That was like him, facing danger Stopping a fight, making peace He didn’t play a hero, he was one, A […]
Shades of America
Shades of America White Supremacy, where is it? What every American needs to know about White supremacy Interview with W. Kamau Bell on the Tonight’s Show W Kamau Bell, who is he? Feature image credits: (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
Has It Really Come to This?
The story has been told and retold: Ben Franklin was walking out of Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention in 1787, when a lady asked him…. “Well, Doctor, what have we got a republic or a monarchy? Franklin, “A republic, if you can keep it.“ But that’s not the end of the story which most […]
Letter to a Close Companion
You begin in the twitch of conception, a long narcotic lullaby until the song vibrates in every cell and bone. We will never be rid of each other, so come, come, little ones will circle in dance striking your face with flowers I loved mocking your toothy grin they will never take your outstretched hands, […]
What is There?
What is there in the end but forgiveness And forgiving one’s self. What is regret when we cannot go back To change anything? We only move forward To more change, the slow breakdown Of the body, aging and death There is that, of course– The quicker one can do it the better: Live so the […]
Five Seven Five
When I cut my hair it always grow back— goodbyes are not for good friends.
Shock
Some One Asked What I Meant When I Said The Oneness of Being I was shocked they didn’t know
Mantra
This may be nothing new nothing at all or nothing now you need to take to heart, whatever it is to you it will mean nothing until realized: with billions of minds, hearts savage wills pulling at the seams of reality it’s a wonder the whole doesn’t tear open spill out into riots, revolutions, war, […]
Love Poem at 4 am
He holds me so close we dream the same dream But I cannot sleep while I remember A dream of driving down a back road in the dark Hoping for collision, a head-on in his arms. That could be my freedom, no one really knows Exactly when we go and I am recalling the look […]
