We were an unlikely quartet alongside the Snoqualmie River’s South Fork the tall and lumbering Taiwanese student towering over the thin and lanky American teen the energetic dog pulling the 50-something suitor up the trail and me the other 50-something tracking literary allusions stopping for expansive breaths murmuring metta blessings closing my eyes to receive […]
Archive for the ‘Mortality’ Category
Twin Falls
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Mortality, Photos, Waterfall on September 24, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
Unwitting Witness
Posted in Birds, Death/Loss/Grief, Ducks, Mortality, Poetry on March 19, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
You’ll say I’m anthropomorphizing reading too much into things projecting making something out of nothing making it about me.
Death and the Love Poem
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Existential, Love, Mortality, Poetry, Youth on September 1, 2015 | 1 Comment »
I asked my friend Deb for a poem idea. “Death?” she replied. “LOL.” I hadn’t told her it was intended to be a love poem.
La Petite Mort
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Fathers, Mortality, Sexuality, Spirituality on July 4, 2015 | 1 Comment »
Succumbing to the smoothest of fingers, I die. A little death, a divine death, releasing just enough of me into the plain where souls meet and dance, leaving just enough of me to remember that in order to live again everything must die.