-in memoriam for the more than 1300 Israelis murdered by Hamas militants this week and –in honor of the courage of the remaining Hamas hostages Captors cover my eyes, disorient dismember one by one, leave open my ears to vibrations of panic and despair. I percuss the beat of the wish for death, frantic shallow […]
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Broken string
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Israel, Prayer, The Soul on October 12, 2023 | Leave a Comment »
Salvation
Posted in Natural World, Pacific Northwest, Prayer, Religion, Spirituality, Waterfall on May 31, 2023 | 1 Comment »
I seek a larger congregation, ceiling taller than pines the house of the Lord, you might think, of eagles and the cascading fall spraying snow-melted mist
Was it the same wind?
Posted in Identity, México, Pacific Northwest, Spirituality, Wind on May 3, 2023 | 1 Comment »
that lifted the baseball cap off my head, today, at the bluffs overlooking the Puget Sound, as it did then, on the semi-arid Mexican cerro?
El Colibrí de Gisela
Posted in Adam and Eve, Bible Story, Desert, Hummingbirds, Mortality on October 26, 2021 | Leave a Comment »
El colibrí de Gisela vino a la última flor de pasión en lo alto. En un lugar privado, escondido de la calle, este pequeño pedazo de desierto se ha transformado en un Edén. A veces verdeante, ahora es la temporada mortal. Las vides de uva, de árboles de limones amarillos, de nectarinas, las camas de […]