Poetry
Bounty
The tossed salad at our Soup Kitchen starts with lettuce from the Community Garden, planted…
Poetry
In the Middle
of a life that’s as complicated as everyone else’s, struggling for balance, juggling time. The…
Poetry
How It Might Continue
Wherever we go, the chance for joy, whole orchards of amazement— one more reason to…
Poetry
In Praise & Gratitude
This prayer can be read following the movements: bow, kneel, lay, rise, heart, pray, bow
Poetry
Improvement
The optometrist says my eyes are getting better each year. Soon he’ll have to lower…
Poetry
We Are Living Now
We are living now our regrets and our failures, the ache of what we wish could be again,…
Poetry
Praise of Darkness
We touch one another with defter fingers at night. Rain sounds different, its steady falling…
Poetry
Letter to My Body
Philosophers shilly-shally, but it’s true: you are me; I am you. This dust, these rays,…
Poetry
instead of “thank you,” try “no thank you”
Take the thorny, inconvenient step. Create a mess outside your usual jurisdiction. Stop leaning on the…
