HATCHED

Leaving mountains and concrete and pollution, confusion and mayhem beyond management, I was eighteen and moving far away from small minds and big noises, ignorance of the intelligent forsaken for silence of trees and waters and loss of language. Not where I was...

STONE SOUP

I know this nonchalance you speak of, a kind of half-blaming, half-devoted confusion of youth. Must be a mother-daughter thing meant to break hearts open like sorrow or ecstasy; a mixed plate from Pandora’s kitchen, perspective being all as I know now, having had...

Our Pete

We go on and life continues with or without our participation. Because of this, I selectively choose to let loose memories, fall leaves blushing red, gold, yellow before browning on the ground. Still those composted fragments remain, great beast led slowly down the...

Pause

Just because we are doesn’t mean we always must be. Who ever convinced me but myself, long yardstick held over my own head, measuring down, not measuring up, listening out instead of listening in. This is the time, there is no other. I sit in mindfulness, at long...

NOW

Why grow impatient at the dawning of a day loaned to us in sequence of indeterminate length while rushing sunset in earnest completion of work for too little pay? Life is a gift we open in the present, hingeing on each moment eyes feast upon splendor of sky, sea and...

DON’T

Don’t hold me as though I will break, you know I am one of substance and anyway, hearts caress long before embracing. Instead attune to the inner urchin, virtual spines disguising small puckers of life rippling beneath luminous shell, sleek rivulets beneath ocean...