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Sunbeams

He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the wild elephant goes.

Randolph Bourne

One Night

Childhood Fears

Large vegetables, losing one or both parents, the death of an animal

Father

One Hundred Years Of Solitude — An Appreciation

We forget, until a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude reminds us, that a metaphor can be a glimpse into the interconnectedness of things, and as such, a large new breath of possibility to our pallid imaginings of self.

Sunbeams

The satiated man and the hungry one do not see the same thing when they look upon a loaf of bread.

Jalaluddin Rumi

In A Room Of Night

Sunbeams

One must have apocalypse in one eye and the millennium in the other, and as you look out through that double vision, the third eye develops and sees the resolution of tragedy and conflict and the rest of it.

William Irwin Thompson

Finding Balladeer Ed

(A Childish Tale)

After long days and nights, after asking and following the advice of many strangers, our hero of medieval aspect and suitcase indestructible beheld from a hill his journey’s end, the village of Balladeer Ed.

Selected Poems