Silent Objections
The calm water reflects the coldmorning sky coming on-line. Pierced by raven calls and lulledby rolling waves. Fragments...
A Slow Start to 2020
As 2020 emerges from the cold waters, we take stock of the previous year. It feels as though...
Stepping Into New Light
Three-months have passed since I stepped into a new day, awash in Minnesota morning light. This would be...
The Next Chapter
Passing through the pages of life,some chapters are thin and we quickly move,some consume years and decades. After...
Poem – Fracture 74 (Fire)
into the flames the willow tree burns smoldering leaves melt from the crown dripping into the snow. I...
Essay – In That Moment
Imagine what life would be from this moment forward if we moved away from the chatter and negativity...
Poem – The Fragments We Keep
Eyes open to the blackened sky. I find myself on scattered rocks. Cold waves wash over me as...
Poem – The Border Kingdom
(1) We drive the dusty road east from the mountains toward the flat land not divulging any secrets...
Poem – Across The Sea
Across the black sea I see nothing with these eyes and I stand here not as I see...
Poem – A Season in Hell
A season in hell has passed as I rose through the fractures in the liquid earth and woke...
Poem – Boundaries
In these chaotic times dancing on the edge of belief and moral code, what I see and you...
Poem – A Plea, part 2
I see you in fragmented dreams images from a life I have not lived unfocused faces and voices...
Thoughts on the Empty Field
I have written a bit about the concept of an empty field and what this means spiritually, mentally,...
Random 9/11 Thoughts
(1) A depth of feeling carried each day buried into the subconscious of each witness, born into each...
Poem – Absentia #5
Absent of sight I push the last images away – move through false realities, scattered light dissipates and...