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Category Archives: Ancient

The history of my way through water

November 3, 2018

Does water remember as I make my way across her on this diagonal again? I clear a wake, paddles’ light …

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So cold the sky

October 25, 2016

waves roll in, tossed over themselves by November winds that scrape surface up and over, up and over, coil under …

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9/3

September 4, 2016

to be lost for this ever, to drink the moon when no one is looking, to return washed clean

Space

August 6, 2016

how it is our first and final loss how it is always here and not here how the way I …

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Fear and hope are like two wings of a bird

July 10, 2016

Today I woke up afraid, hope struggling to be born on this very brink, for my sons, for my city, …

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In the sea

July 2, 2016

Sometimes, my wife thinks she is still a saber tooth. I call to her to come back and we rock …

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The gods, the gods, how they love to hide behind a veil

June 23, 2016

I am not afraid of miracles, though all of my angry doubts must make you think so. I long for …

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On watching fish and light

June 17, 2016

i. The light of our fire straining up these walls brings me back. Far away from my brothers, I followed …

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Nobody knows any more than ever

May 26, 2016

Why do you think it is necessary to visit me here, in my place of origin? Do you think I …

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On poetry and knowing things

May 12, 2016

Today a child tossed a white stone into green water. As it sank, it turned pale green, then darker green …

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