A list of found poems

Here is a list of various found poems that I have made over the years. Happy holiday reading and looking … More

The blanket

Though you may disappear, you’re not forgotten hereAnd I will say to you, I will do what I can do … More

I had bumped into a friend at the cash machine. We greeted each other, as we always do, with a … More

Here are the blog posts that you read most in 2020 As I click through the links I am surprised … More

Harold Budd, May 24, 1936 – December 8, 2020 I am reposting this piece today in memory of Harold Budd, … More

The Sky Over My Mother’s House It is a July night scented with gardenias. The moon and stars shine hiding … More

Before No shoes and a glossyred helmet, I rodeon the back of my dad’sHarley at seven years old.Before the divorce.Before … More

First There is a holiness to exhaustion is what I keep telling myself, filling out the form so my TA … More

The unexamined life’s no different from … More

Dear Arthur Frank I’m writing to say thank you for your extraordinary book At the Will of the Body. It is … More

The Fear of Poetry In this moment when we facehorizons and conflicts widerthan ever before, we want our resources,the ways … More

Twilight Three minutes ago it was almost dark.Now all the darkness is in theleaves (there are no morelow garage roofs, … More

I have walked into the grief. I have walked into brave space, mine and others’. I have sat in … More

I am tired. Though I write from a place of privilege and of safety, I am tired. Tired of feeling … More

We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if we found … More

The Layers I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I … More

I can’t be alone in experiencing the coronavirus crisis and resulting lockdown as something of an infringement on my … More

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