the wednesday poem

"There is also in each of us the maverick, the darling stubborn one who won't listen, who insists, who chooses preference or the spirited guess over yardsticks or even history. I suspect this maverick is somewhat what the soul is, or at least that the soul lives close by." - Mary Oliver

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Here's to the end of a year and the beginning of a new year! And to Venus, the brightest point of light ~

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The Year's Awakening How do you know that the pilgrim track Along the belting zodiac Swept by the sun in his seeming rounds Is trac...
Thursday, December 10, 2015

Happy birthday Emily Dickinson and Micah Bernard!

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A Route of Evanescence A Route of Evanescence With a revolving Wheel  — A Resonance of Emerald A Rush of Cochineal  — And every Blosso...
Thursday, November 26, 2015

Gratitude & staying rooted

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Gate A-4 Wandering around the Albuquerque Airport Terminal, after learning my flight had been delayed four hours, I heard an announcement...
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

To November, and the good things around us

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Around Us We need some pines to assuage the darkness when it blankets the mind, we need a silvery stream that banks as smoothly as a pl...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015

For Alvaro...Feliz Cumpleaños!

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Soneto IX Al golpe de la ola contra la piedra indócil   la claridad estalla y establece su rosa   y el círculo del mar se reduce a un...
Monday, September 21, 2015

Happy Fall Equinox!

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The Beautiful Changes One wading a Fall meadow finds on all sides    The Queen Anne’s Lace lying like lilies On water; it glide...
Friday, September 18, 2015

Here's to September, wind-shifts, and my Mom's 82nd trip around the sun!

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Ps(alm) for Departure I take comfort in more than one traveling alphabet The text will (go with you) come with me Come go anywhe...
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