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Meeting Death Full of Curiosity: Three Poems

December 7, 2025

Our lives are full of curious and mysterious things, and I’m quite certain what came before our birth and after …

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Nothing But Miracles in the Backyard & Beyond

April 14, 2025

This spring as I’m walking around the yard, capturing all the beauty I see on film, I’m reminded of Walt …

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Once Upon a Time in America, Two Poems

November 18, 2024

At a time when we are all striving toward some optimism because the future looks so dark, I almost hate …

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Seamless Being, A Poem

August 20, 2023

Seamless Being I’m not sure what there is to say anymore about being me,Who I am-was-will-be.We flow together seamlesslyWithout end. …

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Summering Upstream with Mary Oliver

August 8, 2023

Slowly this summer I’ve been reading and savoring Mary Oliver’s book of essays Upstream while sitting on my patio sipping …

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Hot Hills in Summer Heat, A Poem

July 23, 2023

Hot Hills in Summer Heat I watch them every summer, the hot hills Crouched like a lion beside the road, …

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A Friend Meets Death, Full of Curiosity

June 18, 2023

Our lives are full of curious and mysterious things, and I’m quite certain what came before our birth and after …

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To All Those Missing Their Mothers on Mother’s Day

May 14, 2023

Farewell Letter to My Son She wrote me a letterafter her deathand I remembera kind of happy lightfalling on the …

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So Much Happiness – Poem and Painting

March 12, 2023

So Much Happiness by Naomi Shihab Nye For Michael It is difficult to know what to do with so much …

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This Sea Within, Without – A Poem

March 13, 2022

I wrote this poem for a novel I’m writing about love and war in Central America. It’s written in the …

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After sailing around the world in a small boat for six years, I came to appreciate how tiny and insignificant we humans appear in our natural and untamed surroundings, living always on the edge of the wild, into which we are embedded even while being that thing which sets us apart. Now living again on the edge of the wild in a home that borders a nature preserve, I am re-exploring what it means to be human in a more than human world.

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