like the sun before breakfast

breath behind daylight consciousness the space I want to hold to hold in to be held in there my soul half on land and half on the ocean floating as I have been suspended held by the ebb and the flow. There must be a way to stay in it more to remain in the space where...
runon: oh what now Ode to MSU organic farm

runon: oh what now Ode to MSU organic farm

how I love to be surprised by what I have forgotten to see… “Plants are our travel agents,” he says with a smile. “They take us places. And everything has a story and companionship with the whole ecosystem: the soil, the rocks, the...

they asked for it

Subtitle: what it takes to keep becoming something whatever the something becoming is meant to be. Something quite large it excited me finally I would see what could come at the end of a brush stretched further than it’s been from the end of my arm yet yet. what...

runon: press an ear against its hive

It is not as if it will buzz at least not on its own it takes investment and care attention and caution to draw a sound from a hollow space Press an ear to the hive and ask it what it means when it sings back to you with its melody and rhyme No two alike and yet we...

I am onto a poem

Writing could help me find my way to where I am traveling. Merton said this first but it bears repeating often. In his lifetime he found him self not so great and yet at times his great him self shadowed the grounds he walked. Do we all if we are honest feel this way?...