Poems

I am clearing a space here, where the trees stand back. I am making a…

Let us try what it is to be true to gravity, to grace, to the…

When the face we wear grows old and weathered, torn open by time, colors tinted…

When the smallness of my vision Dampens all hope inside, I simply watch And these…

Days pass when I forget the mystery. Problems insoluble and problems offering their own ignored…

You are our protection and strength Help in the storm of anguish and despair Exactly…

like this morning, when the wild geese came squawking, flapping their rusty hinges, and something…

The Garden releases its last radiance, not as something failed, but as its full reason…

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones…

I hate milk chocolate, don’t want clouds of cream diluting the dark night sky, don’t…

When the heavens and the earth are snapped away like a painted shade, and every…

One morning we will wake up and forget to build that wall we’ve been building,…

I made a footprint: it is sacred. I made a footprint: small green specks push…

The road in the end taking the path the sun had taken, into the western…

The road seen, then not seen, the hillside hiding then revealing the way you should…

There is a place you can go where you are quiet, a place of water…

The way forward, the way between things, the way already walked before you, the path…

In Spring, hundreds of flowers. In Summer, refreshing breeze. In Autumn, a harvest moon. In…

Where is your ghost this Halloween? Others float along the street, ringing doorbells,  trick or…

Angelus bells on Wissahickon Creek as rocks and water ring each other. Along the banks,…