Linda Vista: Of Proper Farewells
O, tender-hearted death, when it is time for you to haul my Lilliputian soul away inside your giant pentapedal palms —Herculean, innocent and friendly— sweating with midnight’s…
End of Season
Another summer winding to its end, Its half-achieved ambitions softly ease Into a sort of sleep. What now my friend? What should we do now cold winds…
Dragon Killers
March snaps like the Dragon with claws that sting. The red-shouldered hawks, male and female, ring Sky and air as they call to each other. The male,…
Out of the Dark
1 In the hours of darkness, in the long Emptiness of night, I see you most: Then your being rests next to me, Unencumbered by bodily weight,…
Middle Linebacker
A smattering of autumn yellow in the trees lining the quad banners waving gaily above the stadium framed by clear blue sky the marching band plays the…
Roman Ruins
I stood atop the forum’s steps, where words once were spoken of truths eternal—love for wise and good existence. I walked between the stones and pillars, that…
Hope’s Wisdom
Wisdom…Discernment… Traits difficult to embody Sort between fact & fiction Allowing hope to set us free Hope does not tolerate lies Hope never calls virtue vice Hope…
I Saw An Old Man Smile, Enjoying a Book
I saw an old man smile, enjoying a book, And leaves died lovely deaths in autumn; A skipped rock trickled to the creek’s bottom, And a poor…
Address to Psychoanalysis
For Zoe Unorthodox healing art, akin more to Joseph the Egyptian’s craft of insight than to the Greek lexicon of medical wisdom, a match to archeologists’ hand-digging,…
Poetry of the late Tang: Jueju Quatrains of Du Mu and Li Zhong
Jueju (絕句), or ‘cut-off verses’, are the shortest form of Chinese poem. Though precursors can be found in earlier poetry, they were developed during the Tang dynasty,…
From The Seat Behind
Yes – look - all these people - I made them, animals Too, plants, insects --all You can see. It rankles How they waste their lives -…