Poetry & Prose
Freedom Party
What we want is the freedom to incarcerate ourselves in our own opinionated penitentiary.
The Art of Doing One Thing
In modern life, it is hard not to do two things at the same time, at least two, maybe more. Doing one thing takes concentration and doing one thing well takes practiced skill.
Reading Federico Garcia Lorca
On my patio, a fly and I are reading Federico Garcia Lorca. My eyes lift words from the page. The fly lands, walks among letters, commas, puzzles at a question mark, trips over four syllable words, walks, not reads, between lines. The fly knows neither the word aqua...
The Common Wealth of the United States of America
Today, July 4, 2024, we sing the birthday song to our "sweet land of liberty." The birthday present we gifted ourselves is a fundamental crisis. I say ‘gifted’ because on each birth anniversary we need to remember the labor pains of our national birth. Realizing how...
Mistakes Made in Prayer
The wrong way to pray. Before God, to put yourself before God.
Inurement
What do I need from this day? Enough true night to inure me against false suns.
Century XX
The twentieth century, famous for accomplishing both industrialized mass murder and industrialized convenience
The Confession
I was sitting in a hotel lobby in Barcelona, Spain waiting for my traveling companions. A woman approached me, someone I didn't know. “Excuse me,” she said, sitting down in the empty chair beside me. . “May I ask you a favor?” “Certainly,” I said out of polite...
Vive la Difference
“Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our ‘salvation’ if we thought it through.” — Luce Irigaray Several years ago for Father’s Day, my step-daughter gave me a tee-shirt. Printed in bold letters on the front were the words: Radical...
This Is It
This is it. This is it. This is it. Now, not forever. This is it. The next 'it' will arrive post- haste. t