Thursday, December 15, 2011

DREAMING

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DREAMING Keep your eyes wide open if you want to dream---Paolo Coelho The ones we talk about or ache to recall the morning after, we...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

SOUNDS OF LONELINESS

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SOUNDS OF LONELINESS Solitude’s silver and blue/ arrow streaks toward you, lodging like a piece /of ice under your skin .---From “Walking”...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011

PORCH TALK ON THE APOCALYPSE

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PORCH TALK ON THE APOCALYPSE   Sun through a skim of clouds. A nuthatch and a downy woodpecker trade anxious, nasal notes between the...
Sunday, December 11, 2011

HER BAPTISM

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HER BAPTISM (For Marie Clementine)* Was it cold water poured on your head that jolted you into a cranky howl? Who dared break your n...
Saturday, December 10, 2011

THE UNWRITTEN SONG

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THE UNWRITTEN SONG You are learning/ to call to what you love, to see it returning.--- Hannah Stephenson , “You Can do It”, The Storiali...
Friday, December 9, 2011

WHEN GOD CALLS: A BOOK OF MEDITATIONS BY POET-PHILOSOPHER ALEJO VILLANUEVA JR.

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WHEN GOD CALLS---AN EARLY CHRISTMAS GIFT My family received an early Christmas gift today from Rev. Francisco Albano. All the way from Ilag...
Thursday, December 8, 2011

THE ACCOUNTANT

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THE ACCOUNTANT Sunny and cold. A nuthatch lands on the dead cherry and begins a close inspection of the limbs, dapper as an accountant in ...
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

LOOKING AT RAIN

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LOOKING AT RAIN Rain. I’m mesmerized by the driveway puddles, how rings of ripples form and overlap, each raindrop magnified at the point...
Tuesday, December 6, 2011

A TOY PISTOL

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A TOY PISTOL Toys and stuffed animals feed/ our first experiments in truth/ and desire--the dolls of our youth/ are pets, children. We c...
Friday, December 2, 2011

OCCUPYING THE GARDEN

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OCCUPYING THE GARDEN     What do I want, what do I need? Later , I tell myself, later . There’s plenty of work, the hours full of oblig...