Monday, March 18, 2019

Dining on Fire


He gathered near
the Holy Tree
Dining on fire at sunset

That sacred manna
warmed his bones
leaving him fully at rest

Friday, March 8, 2019

Impossible

Walking alone
in the mist
beneath a setting sun
amid an empty forest
he found a curious bottle
mottled with time
and full of wonder
for although, on top of the bottle
the cap was solidly in place,
within
there grew a tiny fern
lush and green
and impossible.

Thursday, March 7, 2019

I Heard the Tall Grass Whispering

I heard the tall grass whispering,
gossiping,
spreading rumors of spring,
even tho the ground is hard with winter.

With ice underfoot
and my breath in the air,
Spring seems an unlikely fable,

but I do so want to believe.

Friday, March 1, 2019

A Season of Lengthening Days

We live in
a season of lengthening days

We must believe this to be true

Even when the skies whisper gray doubt
and the streams run slow and

ice-covered

A Cousin to the Sycamore

When I travel by canoe, by bicycle, by crutch, by foot or by wheelchair I am part of this wide world   I am in and of and with the ear...