Ocean’s Edge
The city spread below me jeweled by the night
Category Archives: Media
Posts containing streamed media – music, poetry, and prose
The Line of the Tide
Here the land and the sea will write the song for you…
fronteira
Between me
and me
are borders
crossed only
by time
My Mother Believes in Me
My mother believes in me
so the odds bow more to my favor.
Keep Your Heart Clean
… the truth of bells will not be argued…
a snowflake
fell
through light
as light
as breath
life is simple
I would have told the secrets of my life long ago
but there were none: life is simple
evening prayer
Maybe when the fruits have all been brought in, and the chill has taken the green out of the leaves, and there is a little more silence and solitude in the rooms than we wish, it calls out (as the migration-call of south-bound geese) memories and hopes for love.
Orpheus
That’s why I sang these songs: the art of writing down my name might call up hers…
To Bring You Home
Then there was a little light, burned away what remained of the night…
my reflection in the photograph
Several years ago I was “improving” my photo collection, which had become a wobbling tower of kodachrome, balanced precariously
Rue
I turned to face the evening: she was there. Her arms a circle, cool November: mist. The light a fallen curtain; and her hair, a silken flicker turned to mask her face.