Sunday, July 6, 2025

The Weight, Enlightened Over Time


We write 
Because we cannot 
Bear not to 

Bear witness how 
It lightens us, 
Time after time.

 

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Homecoming Song

--for my cousin, the silent one 

In the stifling 
Heat of this, the longest 
Day of the year,

While incessant cicadas 
Fiddle fickle time away, 
Just as your coffin is 

Being lowered, to hear 
From out of the shadows 
Of wind-swept cypresses, 

That one lone 
Nightingale's uplifting 
Air! 

 

 

Thursday, June 19, 2025

Subjunctive


In the mood 
To wonder 

At the wondrous
As if it always were 

No wonder 
It was.




 

 

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Huxley In Gaza


All the witnesses 
Were present 

But no one able 

To distinguish which ones 
Were eyeless.



 

Saturday, May 24, 2025

Twofold


God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. 
--St. Augustine 


My love's my ballast; 
Wherever and whenever 
I find myself 

Weightless, she takes me 
Over the moon with her, twice 
As weightless as before.



 

 

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