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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 …

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The meadow prefers no trespassers

October 22, 2016

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

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I think of love

August 26, 2016

I think of love as something that grows form as it ages, sometimes firm, sometimes round, broadening, ambling if allowed. …

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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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I do not cry loud for battle

November 11, 2015

I do not cry loud for battle having given my hand already having held my dying kin having rested under …

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Memorial stone

November 5, 2015

I can leave you only a wisp of my breath and honest intent as I pause, watching you, with both …

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It is what comes after

March 5, 2015

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

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Book of changes, i

November 11, 2014

The sun was bright today, but not enough to keep the lanterns lit tonight. Bare tree branches in tangled knots …

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Holding still

September 25, 2014

My gift to you is that I stand still, regardless of how the world flips and turns, regardless of how …

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Finding the universe

April 14, 2014

It is hard to see the universe
in this tiny blue room.
The light is too bright;

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