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Category Archives: Poems & Photographs
Mom (for Bethany)
She was the best mom. In hard times, she’d put a Bible under my pillow so words of comfort mingled with my dreams. (Fear not, for I bring you tidings of great joy.) She never let a stranger-child go … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, child, children, Grief, kids, mom, motherhood, poems, poetry
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Migration
Five billion years — we must find a new home. Five billion years — the earth falls into the sun’s embrace and will not let her go. Our species needs five billion years to burn the dross from our souls, … Continue reading
Willows
Early March and the willows, brown and gaunt, remember they are beautiful, first in the golden slant of the morning light then soon, from within themselves, the palest green, a hue, innocent somehow, as if hopefulness suffused their limbs and … Continue reading
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Haiku, Japanese Garden
The shrine within me. Dew on the blades of grass shines on my dream lake. A feather drifts by, aimless wanderer stop here. Oh, it is a moth! The koi opens his mouth, all the colors of his … Continue reading
Famine
Even desperate for water in the desert the dead must be washed, every part, to stand before God clean. Hands bound, feet bound, the child lies on the ground, the skull too big for stick-bones. Quiet the child, … Continue reading
Loneliness
One clove of garlic, chopped, sautéed in olive oil, a handful of spinach leaves steamed, rice noodles boiled. An Arctic freeze settles on the city too dry for snow, the ground frozen and stiff. A squirrel walks the … Continue reading
Psalm One
(“I found within me an invincible summer.” Albert Camus ) You have wasted your time, messed up, squandered your money. You have destroyed your health, & you bristle with blame and resentment. Listen. You have the courage. to … Continue reading
New life in dying Aleppo
The newborn, screaming, red-faced, held by his feet, upside-down, slapped, pinched into that first cry, his first breath angry, the mother unconscious, gutted on the table, her leg broken, her arm broken, hauled in 9-months pregnant, shrapnel in her belly, the … Continue reading
Shrine for Don
Crowned “king of the gods” in high school, caped with scepter in hand, a gentle smile, the basketball star in our tiny world, at 21, a lieutenant in Vietnam. Bombs fell on the green villages perimeters strafed and over-run maimed … Continue reading
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Tagged Grief, In Memoriam, Memorial Day, poem, VietNam War, VietNam War Memorial, War
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Giant Pacific Octopus
If this octopus escapes an open tank, look carefully around, then worry. It can scuttle over land. Longer than a car, it squeezes through an orange-size hole. The beak? In its crotch or armpit, take your pick. Ignore the … Continue reading
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