If you must write what you know must you write what your eyes saw on the screen held in your hand? The boy, 4 or 5, smiling, then in his place the crater of our bomb, small for a canyon but not big enough for a mother’s … … or was it the [...] Learn more →
New Moon Gateway: Accumulations of Substance with the Tarot’s Hermit, 9 of Pentacles, and Knower of Stones
The new moon arrives Monday, September 2nd (exact at 9:55 pm ET, time zone converter) calling us to work with our “accumulations of substance” for both body and soul. We are on the path of the Hermit, who in the iconic Rider Waite Smith deck raises a lantern into a vast sky while standing on a mountain’s rock [...] Learn more →
New Moon Gateway: The Strength to Sing
Taking the Shining Tribe Tarot as our inspiration for the correspondences and guiding wisdom of this moonth (beginning Sunday, the 4th, with the arrival of the new moon exact at 7:13 am ET, time zone converter) we find ourselves walking through the forest of the Six of Trees. At a first glance, this image shows us traveling the [...] Learn more →
A CEASEFIRE CENTO
PALESTINIAN POETS WRITE A RESOLUTION WHEREAS, the house / next door no longer / stands. It’s lying like an old carpet / on the floor of the earth, / trampled by missiles, fat slippers / flying off legless feet; and WHEREAS, every time we leave the house, / it’s suicide. / And each return a [...] Learn more →
Three Poems
These three poems were first published in Meat for Tea (Vol 17, Issue 4) and recently shared at my February 27th Poetry & Practice Presentation at the Easthampton Public Library. Formatting is always better in print so you should buy a copy of Meat for Tea :). A Walk through Smoke and Rain On the [...] Learn more →