Outside My Office Window Sleek vehicles enclosing flesh, blood, souls hurtling over darkening earth, the bending world. Road thins into distance, roars and whines,…
Poetry: Midnight Sledding
Midnight Sledding (December 31, 2009) A last December sled down Grandpa’s hill, Surprised to see beneath a bright blue moon, A seldom second…
Poetry: A Promising Stone
A Promising Stone I cannot afford you flawless. To boast this stone so seeming smooth Glitters in grace through cracks and cuts And faults…
Poetry 180 (Billy Collins, 2003)
Poetry 180 While Billy Collins was United States Poet Laureate, he launched a series of efforts to bring poetry into the lives of ordinary…
Poetry: Stretching
I’ve been working on doing the splits both ways side splits and scissor splits I started Friday and now it’s Wednesday and I think…
Poetry: A Constellation
Faithfully shining this fam’ly of stars Patiently pointing in radiant song Wheeling in motion to music they sing The love in the law of…
Poetry: Advent Reflection
Advent Reflection It is said, the end of a thing is in the beginning. There were angels in both places: at first they frightened…
Poetry: Awakenings
The sky held a smokelike hue as the simmering substance of fire began to arise, sculpting away vagueness, uncloaking ambiguities, gathering the world to…
Poetry: Belly Gunner
Belly Gunner My father’s father flew beneath the mass And sweating steel of allied bomber wings Defending stranger friends both now and past Hunched…
Poetry: A Good Hike
A Good Hike We hike with him a rough and unmarked trail, A park for all ordained as common ground, Our father, boots laced,…