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Morning light not reflected Absorbed from golden sun Warms my neck and shines upon the Devil’s Orchard   Born from ashes and molten rock Limber pine are sprouting from under and the lichen are turning color   The Devils are in...

The heat bears down like spears hurled toward the ground and ricochet silently off the brush-scattered hills A muddy river is my companion with eight-foot cliffs to give room for swelling   To be trapped here alone and aloof My...

Dear faithful companion, as slow light awakens before sun’s rising, do you feel my anxious body self-inflict persistent iron drudgery of everyday life?   Only hear belly breathing, OM mantra. Only feel your patient hidden...

I follow meander of Sunday sermon—quenching drops of eloquent phrases others waterfall out in a tumblefill my ears with rush of ways, reasons to love our neighbor.His smile that crooked crinkledsmile like phrase markingover line...

Caravan, caravan, caravan of tired, poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free, wretched refuse surging inexorably toward the Rio Grande.   Caravan of foreigners, others, alleged Middle Easterners and the like proceeding...

one more
timeless time
yes—
why not?

~After GDBee’s, “Space Letterman”   Rain runs down trees streaking black bark with transparency.   Haze holds a pin oak hostage while its pale brown leaves— leathery stars slick as moon— hold assembly above squirrels that scurry...

The heat would hang high in the elms,
The air heavy with the season’s poison.
At night, I would listen to my parents’ voices,
Imagining that mote-like seed miasmic polio.

                             (for my daughter on her seventh birthday)     One chord attached you to me, enclosed us in a symphony; Two feet you found your way around, holding papa’s hand, you learned to stand; Three pirouettes,...