Emploting Armadillos: An exercise in configuration
"Most simply, emplotment involves making a configuration in time, creating a whole out of a succession of events." — Cheryl Mattingly,...
A old poem for a rainy weekend
Rainsense 1. An 8-year-old girl stands by the fence. She is alone. It’s a cornflower night of weighted stars, silence. She runs naked...
My short story "Hulling the Heart"
Hyman Bloom is one of my favorite painters. I was so honored to have my short story "Hulling the Heart" published on the Hyman Bloom info...
To Nazim Hikmet at 60
This longish, 8-part poem is an old one I wrote during the time I lived in Cambridge, MA. I wrote it response to finding Nazim Hikmet's...
From the studio
One of the things I was most excited about when the realtor first showed us our house last summer was the potential studio I imagined as...
Landscaping with Wallace Stevens
I spent the weekend landscaping and memorizing bits of Wallace Stevens in between all the mulching, hoeing, and laying down of sedum and...
The talking cure
Talking Cure* My client said it was sleep defecation bothering him, after last week sharing, he just couldn't deal with all that rigor...
On the breath and wild beneath the skin
************ When I checked my email earlier tonight, I was surprised to find a notification telling me I had a new comment on a blog...
Going Yoga: Through Breath, Body, and Heart
In Between East and West, philosopher Luce Irigaray has this to say about the lessons (or reminders) yoga taught her: "First, I learned...
