Crashing out

My concentration has not been all that it might have been recently. Loved ones are suffering. Some with this thing,…

What good is love that no one shares

I started a bit of a thing for Max Richter a while ago. Then gave up. Last autumn I came…

Practice To weep unbidden, to wake at night in order to weep, to wait for the whisker on the face…

Any Common Desolation can be enough to make you look upat the yellowed leaves of the apple tree, the fewthat…

Another Loss to Stop For Against such cold and mercurial mornings, watch the wind whirl one leaf across…

As Planned After the first glass of vodka you can accept just about anything of life even your own mysteriousness…

Empathy and New Year A notion like that of empathy inspires great distrust in us, because it connotes a further…

A Blessing in Disguise Yes, they are alive and can have those colors, But I, in my soul, am alive…

Here are my most popular blog posts of 2019. As you will have seen, I am taking a brief sabbatical…

Mary At first a fluttering then a kick, his fist pummelling my rib cage when I knelt to pray. They…

BC – AD This was the moment when BeforeTurned into After, and the future’sUninvented timekeepers presented arms. This was the…

December Il va neiger dans quelques jours Francis Jammes The giant Norway spruce from Podunk, its lower branches bound, this…

Supper Never before has she danced so well. Now she stands before him, her feet bare, Anklets lightly…

For reasons I cannot go into here, I am finishing 2019 in a tired frame of mind. (I am not…

Humankind We carry the trust. It was not imposed on us, nor are we heedless. Sometimes the stillness stands in…

Drunken Winter Oak oak! like like it then cold some wild paddle so sky then; flea you say “geese…

Ways of Rebelling Who needs to be at peace in the world? It helps to be between wars, to…

Ultramarine for Philip Archer Looking for the perfect blue, water to swim in, not through, to fill his…