another loss
Last night the wind picked up and, as I gently dropped into sleep, it not so gently opened its mouth and blew and blew and blew.
Category Archives: People
how they reached for one another
I would begin with the letters they wrote to one another. Begin with their words of the daily, with a thread of love woven around them.
Crows
Between the hills and the channel, the crows flew into the cornfields as they had two hundred years before.
Earth to earth
I haven’t built a house, or surveyed for a map, or planted a garden. But by listening listening listening I’ve followed the sprite of movement.
Choro Bandido
Besides my love, it was music took me to Brazil.
Follow the Leader
Life is lighter when it is shared, and all but the most intransigent problems shy away from a circle of friends.
echo
“Shh!” All five fingers of the right hand spread wide, the first touching the lips, the hand a stop sign, the fingers stretched rigid, the hand surprised, the fingers an echo of surprise. Meanwhile, with the left, she reached over and unplugged the radio.
my reflection in the photograph
Several years ago I was “improving” my photo collection, which had become a wobbling tower of kodachrome, balanced precariously
Windows – 3
Lonny was the product of big energy and tiny town, where the limitations imposed by three square blocks of homes — an Alcatraz adrift on an ocean of unswimmable wheat — fueled the kind of incendiary pressure that could only come out wrong. Even back then, when I was eight and Lonny was nine, his …
Jazz
Recently someone asked me about the form of dance I practice — the form I aspire to, really; and like all good forms it is small enough for me to wrap my arms around, large enough to contain my curiosity, lean enough that an evening costs a few dollars and yields a fortune, full enough …
Enceladus, one of many
The bigger the world, the more human in size we find ourselves, intimate part of a Mystery so grand you cannot help but bow…
Innocence
The moon poured its smiling face silver over the yard, and you moved your hand an inch, then another inch, then held my cool fingers in yours that were so warm.