46: let some word that is read be yours

In a letter to God this is how it went a plea an extortion we all seek truth don’t we?…. I can’t imagine any other way yet the body on death row the mind overtaking the neighbors country the heart hardened against (rather than softened towards) I...

45: lungs bigger than a tennis court

nerves span 45 miles of terrain veins 2.5 times around the globe DNA stranding 70 times back and forth to the sun What is this within us woven so perfectly into mystery beauty if not the evidence sought we are a landscape to discover so much more on the inside than...

44: a spear in the hand

tumbling over far and wide landscapes before the feet even hit the floor mind wandering aimlessly along cliffs and boulders slick with algae as if it needed to train here in this baren landscape for life little does it realize what the heart knows the soul lives turn...

43: thoughts

grow tired of themselves and can finally fall silent I wake at my own gate of heaven again the bird song the open windows the pale brush of dawn the anticipation of a package on the porch and the forecast calling me to water the pots of spring flowers and small shoots...

42: Maybe Tina will get this

To paint to write to take whatever one’s hand keens after in hand and place it to the surface before oneself hold all the life of one’s years at its tip and spills we hope not from the mind so much as from the fullness of heart for from there came bubbling...

41: When I thought that was all

of upsets the final closing of tumult and surprise life no longer the waking of storms finally settling into summer sunshine and soft breeze blew the top off my expectations leaving the doors wide open to the petals from the neighbor’s cherry trees billowing on...