Tanka for working from home

March 23, 2020

In interesting times, I write at my son’s old desk cut into his closet stuffed with childhood remnants curse, avalanche …

To William Stafford

March 18, 2017

Upon opening The Way It Is after a week that convinces me that this dark marathon is much longer than …

December 3, 2016

Gazing up this terrible mountain, you say, love is not enough, though when I add together everything else and stack …

November 17, 2016

i. I know because you are me. You came here afraid, chased by storms. You huddle with spare, odd friends …

October 22, 2016

or, To Donald Trump and all the other letches throughout my long life, starting at age 11 and continuing far …

February 10, 2016

I cannot say it all started that night but that is when it became clear: dark, full, swelling wounds of …

November 29, 2015

we long for peace it seems to surround us but perhaps it is only darkness falling with its uneven temper …

March 5, 2015

Though in a world of doubt surrounded, our river plies, churns, hides its own error, misgiving, re-creation, courage of moment, …