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Monthly Archives: April 2014
Wing Span
In this sweet curve of time we fly south, over the up-lifted earth of the Sierra Nevadas, gray-green forests brown where fire touched the stretching earth, catchments of smooth blue water, patches of snow cast like manna on the peaks. … Continue reading
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InterPlay Journal, Friday morning, April 11, 2014
Body Wisdom: To change your life, change your practice!” Patricia led today on the theme of “intersections.” What happens when we come to an intersection in our lives when we must choose one way or another? What do we do, … Continue reading
Alki Point, Minus Tide
Amanda runs through the shallow waves in her pink sun-suit and rubber boots, yelps as she holds a crab, its single pincher snapping. Amanda grins and flashes the new front teeth too big for the others; she sets the … Continue reading
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Wing-Beat in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado
You have said your good-byes like prayers, used to the words on your lips; your child has the shape of your eyes, but the shade of resemblance dances away. Remember the river at dawn, flowing between the canyon walls … Continue reading
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Tagged canyon, child, Colorado River, Grand Canyon, growing up, loss, love, mallards, nature, parent, rain, river, separation
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Apricot Moon
Ignition on, the key worn down almost straight now, on the dashboard, a pack of Camels lying on maps among rock samples and tufts of tamarisk. Shirtless, you lean forward, turn the key, a birthmark flutters over your 6th … Continue reading
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Tagged Anza-Borrego Desert, desert, Perseus, poem, poetry, Zeus
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Prism
The glittering water pulses with rainbows, tosses off colors, swirling, a flutterance – no thought of loss or want or farewell, brilliance for a shilling or a dime or naught gathering the colors up again to shrug them off, twirling … Continue reading
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Tagged color, farewell, loss, love, poem, poetry, sorrow
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Transformation
You are trapped in the gyre, drifting in the ocean without oxygen in a mass the size of Texas. You can escape. Lean close. You must throw yourself into the endless whirlpool, lashed to a barrel. You think you … Continue reading
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Tagged hope, poems, poetry, resilience, transformation
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InterPlay Journal, Friday morning, April 4, 2014
Steve (the man with the gray goatee) led InterPlay this morning. “Spring” was definitely the theme today. About 20 of us were milling around and chatting at the start, so he had us find a partner and begin to massage … Continue reading
Communal Life
The cherry trees shake out their fullness the buds all in bloom now absorbing the sound of the blue day. The photographer must be quick as he leans over his camera on the tripod, already the lick of green shoots … Continue reading
