I search again through the just-opened mound a 1000-piece puzzle a promise of calm, time without limit
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The Pieces
Posted in Community, Guanajuato, Mosaic, Time on March 23, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
You ask me to walk in silence
Posted in Community, Protest, Women on January 22, 2017 | 2 Comments »
On the occasion of the Seattle Womxn’s March Jan 21, 2017 You ask me to walk in silence hold my tongue wait just a little longer and still a little longer maybe four years.
The 12th Poet: In Search of the Epic
Posted in Community, Football, Poetry, Superbowl on February 6, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
War and soldiering, victory and defeat, belong not just to the troops, the generals, the political leaders. They belong to the Poets. Poets to protest the cost of the violence, Poets to remind that freedom – the touch of the divine – must sometimes be freed from the touch of man.
The Proliferation of Banks
Posted in Banks, Cooking/Food & Wine, Sexuality, Shopping, Shops, Starbucks on June 11, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Storefronts around my office are closing. The Italian restaurant that hosted local opera singers has been closed for a couple of years, and I still lament that we can no longer suggest it to friends as the perfect spot to clinch a young romance. The funky furniture shop nearby closed not long after. A fabulous […]
Crying at my Computer
Posted in Community, Death/Loss/Grief, Existential on April 17, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
I vowed I wouldn’t get too caught up in the stories and images of the Marathon. But here I am, in my silent, pre-dawn house, ensconced in what is now so clearly just the veneer of safety (the same veneer we hope to wake up into each day, we who live in the land of […]