We huddle, we hope, we play card games on the floor, eat takeout for every meal. Pizza, lo mein, cheeseburgers, and Gummi bears. We watch each other’s luggage, and sleep in dog piles against the wall. We walk around the same terminal that we already…

the twisted tree is hit by the storm grandma forgets me but remembers the young sapling right outside her home she checks on it hourly but walks carelessly to her bed getting scrapes she asks me questions gives me names that she likes   the…

Hi, I hope you are safe and sound. Speaking of sound, this old age is a payback for all my nagging at you students. I can no longer hear anything but your words and chaos is still in my memories.

We gather together ~ We ‘gather’ in echo chambers, scorning the company of the ‘other,’ that dangerous believer of untruths, of fake news, of demagogues new & old… We gather to scorn and mock. And yet mothers still love their children, red & blue alike….

When we lay in bed at night Our skin touches Our bodies sink in Our minds ease Then we say the silliest things My beard looks like I’m trying to sell you a pan for mining gold Sir, please stop stacking those rocks Can we…

  The Commune   Perhaps my life has been random. Or it could be that every step has been planned.   Why did I extemporaneously quit dental school? If the stars were different or the sun out that day maybe I would have stayed.  …

We convene under full and new moons Sisters and brothers alike Draw the circle and light the fire Pour a cup of tea and settle in Breathe in breathe out And presence ourselves All five elements appear Connect heart and soul And cross the bridge…

Invincible and Ancient It is true the Mayfly, Shad-fly, Fish-fly or Up-winged fly named so because the long tail and wings don’t touch the belly. Victorious, invincible and practically eternal the innocent invertebrate is quite the insect. They have been around forever. Note that they…

Black, white, and brown skin colours lost meaning when we gathered to celebrate the One who had so much done in need and in deed   the worship was electric the mood ecstatic the environment terrific   Time lost its meaning as no one was…

You watch him close for sleight of hand take the measure of this man the moves he makes the pieces he takes not because he has to but because he can So deftly he defeats his foe through uncompromising blow after blow and how his…