Poetry

Remorse Code
I used to want you to understand all of it: the dripping roof, stalagmites rising up like dandelions …

Dwell
In the future we will live in pods of reclaimed wood and very white bed-linens …

Passing the Peace
On good weeks it happens twice. Once on Sunday morning, sunlit sanctuary …

Bearing Witness
ICE arrested someone on my block. Walking my dog, I saw the witness first …

Be opened
to the absence of your own voice filling your inner silence …

A Famine of Words
It says right there in Amos chapter eight: “The time is surely coming,” syas the Lord …

After Denise Levertov’s Essays
My mind stops, one foot in the air …

Awake
An olive tree, aflame in my mind, awake in the wee hours …

On Absolution
I pass the big nursery on the way to see my father for the first time in a year …

Grafting Apple Shoots
Gashes in the green. Stumps and roots serve in …

Winterscape with Hair Gel and Citrus
Each day you wak to the same gray sky, snow covering the gass like scarves the women wear …

Annunciation
After Fred broke up with me,I returned to graduate schooland immersed myself in six classes,an overload, trying to heal. One sunny autumn day,I sat alone