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February 2020
Featuring Sue Monk Kidd, Michael Meade, Parker J. Palmer, and more.
February 2020
Parade Day
Today is the National Puerto Rican Day Parade. I am watching it on television in Brooklyn while the Puerto Ricans are parading up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
February 2020
Sunbeams
December 2019Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion.
To be of use
The people I love the best / jump into work headfirst / without dallying in the shallows / and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.
December 2019
Last Requests
I want to be excused, at least this once, / from being me, and be instead someone / who sees daily things as miracles
December 2019A Pale Blue Dot
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great, enveloping cosmic dark.
October 2019
Green Freak
He has developed a shorthand response to my entreaties: Landfill, he hisses, and he walks away.
October 2019
Ode To My Kind
Here I am, once again among my kind, / half-moon high outside the window / rowing its light down the empty street, parting / the dark waves of the parking lot, soaking the oak leaves / all the way through.
September 2019Stolen Time
Blind luck put me on this yard where the men have decided to make good use of the empty time forced upon us by the state. Yard A is downright peaceful, nothing like the prison yards where racist convicts stab and assault people.
September 2019
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