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Well, Lord a’mighty/Great Spirit/The Is/Universal What’s-it/ whatever/whoever you are—I sure hope so. The when is what makes mortals like meitchy with impatience— when will it all be revealed? If it’s atthe very end, in our final moments between slipping from … Continue reading →

…punctured by a holiness that exists inside everything.—Mark Nepo, from “Adrift” Just now. That moment. The one where youstepped away from the has to to give in to the want to, when you got up from yourchair and went to … Continue reading →

Leaves turn slowly in my neck of the woods,which are not woods at all, but the streetsof the Capital City I call home, which makes walking these days so colorful.In parts more northerly and easterlytheir autumn display has already peacocked … Continue reading →

Let me say goodbye today.Let me wish you well on your journey before I get all teary and full ofwould coulda shouldas as we do when people we lovesuddenly shove off for any number of reasons. Or peoplewe don’t love … Continue reading →

I don’t like to, but…Oh, why not? But first I gotta math,and I don’t math,so what’s 356 times 2? I calculator, though,so… 712? That’s, well, notnearly as many assome poets who’veput up their versesdaily for many years. But as of … Continue reading →

For Sweet Adelines, it’s all aboutthe show, and there they are,the whole chorus, every womancostumed for Halloween, singing their hearts out, Momin her witch’s hat pointingskyward, her plastic crooked nosehanging from black glassless frames. Kiss today goodbye,the sweetness and the … Continue reading →

You, more recently in my life,never knew him, but let meshow him to you: Here he is, dark hair shot withearly white, hunching slightlyover the kitchen counter,chopping onions, carrots,something, making things,making food. For me. There he is—well, his long legs—sticking … Continue reading →

She who made us two,we are now threeof the four who used to be. He, gone these two decades,who taught her to skim over wateron first two, then one, ski, and, after we came along,they put us in the boathe … Continue reading →

on to the nextin to the breachunto the horizonjust out of reach over to the sidein view of the seanearby lies younext to lies me between or betwixtbecause of, you sayunder or overapart from the fray during & afteralongside we … Continue reading →

We fear what we can’t see,but none of us can seewhat’s on the other side. We’re not even convincedthat there is another side,which frightens us all the more. This can’t be it, can it?We want so much more—more time, more … Continue reading →