The Big Reversal

One haiku moment on that pedestrian day, the sun and the sunflower dissolved into density: the universe a second before the Big Bang.  

Hope’s Question

Roiling, the Pacific laving the stone shore, the midnight moon slap dashed on waves, human voices out of mineral dark baths, naked, birth-ready, and reckless with hope’s question: Can the numinous, wrest from the grasping hands of gasping gods, be rediscovered in...

Robotics

Smarmy robots do not need solace. No need to be comforted. No grief, they gleam. A third of their time – plugged-in. Batteries do need to be recharged. Wired for warmth, a socket for a friend.

Dry & Drought

The forest is on fire. We don’t care. Some care. Those with forest houses care. Most don’t, think they care, they must, who wouldn’t, the beauty, the deer, owls in the trees, brown bears lumbering along moss paths. Fish smile in streams. They laugh all wet and smug....

No Such Thing

There is no such thing as no such thing. If you can imagine such a thing there is such a thing, existing in your imagination.