Knocking From Inside
Monday, June 30, 2025

On my retirement

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  I’ve done a lot, and left undone the rest, I lost some races, but I won the rest. The day-sky fades to twilight castle-clouds, Even the ti...
Sunday, June 08, 2025

Mockingbird

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  Hush, little baby, don't say a word Papa's asylum case will not be heard. And if asylum won't be given Papa’s gonna go to dete...
Monday, May 19, 2025

Change

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Well, you know that every castle’s built on shifting sand. Your certainties must turn to melting snow and spill like water from your empty h...
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Thursday, May 15, 2025

Cat Hotel

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  My baby left me, I can’t break her spell She moved in down at the Cat Hotel. My baby left me, everyone knows She made her home at the Cati...
Sunday, May 04, 2025

Give Warning to the World

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You have vacated the watchtowers on the walls of the world. And out there in the gulf you renamed “America” you know there is a monster stor...
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

New April Moon

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The moon’s cup, brimming with the fragrance of lilacs-- let it spill over! Books Available Dervish Lions The Day of My First Driving Less...
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Why We’re Leaving

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This is what we inherit: a broken planet, desperate people, the corpse of a nation-state raddled with corporate leeches. And so, like every ...
Saturday, April 12, 2025

Blue Riddles

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What is the taste of moonlight, flat stare of a lake? What is the star at the heart of a stone, the sound of salt, a field-hand’s song? What...
Sunday, March 16, 2025

Zoonoses

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Every night in 2020 I dreamed of Pestilence on his pale horse. Sometimes just its hoofbeats-- ta-tump, ta-tump , heartbeats on a monitor in ...
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Monday, March 03, 2025

Wy'East Watching Shadows

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Old man, white-haired warrior you’ve sheltered me from both fire and ice, the East Wind’s breath breaking on your stony shoulders while a ci...
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Love Poem for Chiang Mai

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I shelter in the shade of your ruined wall. I rest at the rim of the old canal. Your crooked streets comfort me, a maze surrounding sanctu...

Temple and Town

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Temple courtyard Village square Place of commerce House of prayer. House of worship Marketplace Daily life in Sacred space.   Books Availabl...

Chiang Mai's Canals

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Little dragons, sleeping in the sun you seem so tame. What works of hands, what years of labor shaped this land? Who knew when to call it do...

New adventure, redux

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 So we are back from Thailand and I have re-published a few posts that I had hidden (so as not to advertise too widely that we were out of...
Saturday, January 25, 2025

Luminous ghost

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a luminous ghost rides low at my right shoulder sun in morning fog   Books Available Dervish Lions The Day of My First Driving Lesson Cou...
Thursday, December 26, 2024

A new adventure

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 Details here Books Available Dervish Lions The Day of My First Driving Lesson Country Well-Known as an Old Nightmare's Stable High-...
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Crow Commute

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These mornings, I can see the crows commute but backward. From downtown, a storm of wings heads east across the river. Raucous things,...
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