Last summer, two discrete young snakes left their skin on my small porch, two mornings in a row. Being post-modern now, I pretended as if I did not see them, nor understand what I knew to be circling inside me.From "Summ...

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,/ So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. Shakespeare Love, like summer, is rest, stillness, and slowing down. Love, like summer, is rejuvenation, quiet, and growth. Love, like summer, breath, b...

Porch swing, summer in a glass./ Drinks get named for thirsts we discuss.// Discussions skirt deeper thirsts./Such thirsts burn, turn sand to mirages./ A mirage is a drink the mind mixes./In a glass marked no it pours out yes.// Yes, the sign says, t...

What we are all more or less lacking at this moment is a new definition of holiness. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin  I want to write a new definition of holy. We live differently when we see ourselves, others, and our earth as holy. Where to sta...