California Notebooks, September 2013

* sitting hushed – heat isn’t the cause  . willfully watchful of this silence pregnant of barely perceptible sounds . the sky one solid color  . velvety wings moving producing no noise they found no obstacle  . not even the hamming birds make noise I rest at last  . desire raises  . not to move […]

Not Rosaries Nor Missals – The Source Of Sin – July 2013

* an enclosed space at the nuns I liked the candies for sale . to jump rope to play ball rare smiles rising . they wanted no males around we were separated . there was peace productivity and what they . called purity I loved this one it was like a long . silence of […]

Not Rosaries nor Missals – Eager To Learn – July 2013

* I was eager to learn it was nuns who thought me . how to peel fruit apple pears even potatoes to crash nuts . to set the table to embroidery carefully to sing in a church . to listen to the silence in between to look for light breaking . darkness through sliced windows […]

Reverberations, 2013 Images are

* . images are but borrowing from reality which needs to express inner pulsions . words are but knitting of thoughts not yet fully born savory ephemeral . . stepping stones are my favorite to advance from the inside out to a nicer view . from the outside in for a more intimate look as […]

Poe-m-try

*** . rest in winter acceptance in the happy silence . feel your roots dancing slowly underground . stretching toward the needed death is but an attire . -Dec. 2009- . . Filed under: Poetry

The London Hours, 2012

* white wellness welcomed within . quietness a silence seek . nearly no movement a mussel in a shell . i hear love surging . if i could stay forever . fractions of a deep me . . Filed under: Poetry