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Adrift

Everything is beautiful and I am so sad.
This is how the heart makes a duet of
wonder and grief. The light spraying
through the lace of the fern is as delicate
as the fibers of...

The Ancient Ones


From the beginning
We have been with you.
We are the Ancient Ones
And we remember.

We remember the time when there was only love,
The time when all breathing was one. 


This Is How I Voted Today


This is how I voted today.
I went to the woods and dug a hole
under fern in leaf rot and luminous fungi

into which I pressed my mouth and screamed
a long hot...

In the Event of Another Morning

In the event of another morning,
I ask all those inclined to a violent act,
of whatever sort, physical, psychological, economic,
to remember your mother’s breast...

Autumn

The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,
as if orchards were dying high in space.
Each leaf falls as if it were motioning "no."

And tonight the heavy earth is falling
away...

The Diameter Of The Bomb

The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters
and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters,
with four dead and eleven wounded.
And around these, in a...

In a Dark Time

In a dark time, the eye begins to see,
I meet my shadow in the deepening shade;
I hear my echo in the echoing wood—
A lord of nature weeping to a tree.
I live between the...

What We Need


on earth we need nothing new no gizmo style fads

no media distraction what we need is old

ancient primal primitive pagan we need torah runes testament...

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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/10/05/eve-ensler-white-women-supporting-kavanaugh-stand-survivors-fight-nomination

First of all great appreciation to Shepherd. He came out again Friday...

Twenty-One Love Poems [Poem III]


Since we’re not young, weeks have to do time
for years of missing each other. Yet only this odd warp
in time tells me we’re not young.
Did I ever walk the...

Wow, just looking at all the venom directed at Peets -- basically a local Bay Area company that did very well business-wise and grew to expand to many locations. They were up against the Starbucks...