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In these day of spartan dreams, should I let myself be coaxed to simulated death by the stinginess of my over- taxed imagination? in this time of mortal fears, shall I lay myself down like a lamb on the slaughterhouse … Continue reading →

Accept your infinite youth With all the cells of your body which renew themselves daily, giving you entirely new flesh, new muscle, new bone every seven years, accept your infinite youth. With every thought that rises out of old fact … Continue reading →

I am beyond these walls today — so far beyond these walls, no amount of business as usual can take me by surprise. I am beyond these walls. 1994 From Depth Perception – Selected Poems  

She saves my cards. Each holiday or special occasion, each handmade token,. each and every word, come easy or coaxed long and hard from heart to hand to pen to paper to her eyes only, she cherishes. She saves my … Continue reading →

Inhabiting the realm of spirit is less easy than most think. Weathering the storms of blood crashing against the walls of elastic veins that give with the flow and hug with the ebb, as flesh seeks to mirror the mind’s … Continue reading →

Testimonial Of course, I cannot prove a word of this — for the evidence is long since fallen victim to conquest of truths its distant cousin, or worse, no relative at all. Of course, I cannot heap up a mountain … Continue reading →

Again, Again Oh, but we have traveled long, each of us on a separate, disparate course that somehow comes parallel to the other, now and then. Now and again, I wonder if your feet have fallen half as hard as … Continue reading →