Category: Political struggle
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To all my friends who are and who are not freaking out right now
Crisis is unpredictable and scary . . .
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Tanka for working from home
In interesting times, I write at my son’s old desk cut into his closet stuffed with childhood remnants curse, avalanche looms
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To William Stafford
Upon opening The Way It Is after a week that convinces me that this dark marathon is much longer than I expected, even in my most hardened moments Wake up my soul, I ask, please. It lies sleeping somewhere under a pile of emails, Congressional edicts, cruel comprehensions, that I have been picking through all…
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On healing and revolution
Gazing up this terrible mountain, you say, love is not enough, though when I add together everything else and stack it high above my head, everything else is not enough either. So I fall back on love, and it nudges me back to the task of gathering everything I can find – a pick ax,…
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The meadow prefers no trespassers
or, To Donald Trump and all the other letches throughout my long life, starting at age 11 and continuing far longer than anyone would expect It is not for nothing that I seek payment for you to come near my soft body. It is a design to hold you off, just so, make you think…
Poems from in between 