E-stir

E-stir – energy animates the inanimate, a stand against the renunciation of the body, a shout from the ghost ravaged grave. The corporeal scandalizes the corpse. _________________________________________________________________ What had been loosed from the folded...

How to be a Conservative

To be a conservative, first, know what you’re conserving. Value or privilege. If value, best spread it everywhere. If privilege, best guard against loss. Privilege is a pie. Only so many slices. Too much sharing and the pie is gone. Value is atomic, it empowers when...

Entrenched Life

It’s not easy, climbing up, climbing out, of trenches, out of mind grooves. Out of rutted comforts. The walls, dug steep, brief horizon slight view favorable to me. I see that I like what I see.

The Bruise

A fist of words, gloves off, sock the eyes of the ear & the ears of the eye. The punched mind jerks                             not deflecting to safety but reflecting on what can be learned from the...

My World War

Something was over. The war, I was told. People were happy, and I was two. Seventy nine years later, I look through family photographs, one, me on my grandfather’s porch, ringing a bell in a black and white world. Whatever war was, it was good it was over. I was right...

A Sort of Psalm for Our Time

Can we sing a familiar song in a time we have made unfamiliar? I. insidious pudding melded merge blend vanilla bland soft to taste sweet too not toothy luxuriously smooth no bite II. food fast   chains overarching arches meat as king ichthus sandwiches sacrificial...

What I Noticed on the Beach

the earth – dense enough to bear the sea  the sea – dense enough to bear the sky  the sky – dense enough to bear the bird  the bird – complex enough to bear  earth, sea, and...

Words Working (7)

A fist of words, gloves off, sock the eyes of the ear & the ears of the eye. The punched mind jerks         not deflecting harm but reflecting on what can be learned from the bruise.    ...

Sunset

The fiery sun drops without sizzle into the Western sea, the end of another illusion called day.