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Sigh…

 “Little by little You approached, and bit by bit I went away.”  - Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh        .  

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Snow and Ash

Late afternoon in winter snow laying in the eddies in which it fell No one is going anywhere, because the light’s failing turns us back - back on ourselves these empty rooms, this cold hearth where we...

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Listening

Listening (to Eric Whitacre’s Cloudburst) A young man’s choral and symphonic works fill the early hours before light comes loud over the hill. No ordinary music, this as it palpitates the nerve...

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Indeed

  Even now, the day wide open in its noontime, the sea as blue and restless as a buried past, my night’s breathing and sighing for you      overtakes me. Rapt in a peculiar bliss, I have bridged a...

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Note from Self

I found myself today standing quite still, after working in light rain expanding the small flower bed near the sun room window. The rain was quiet for a moment, but the trees and low growth were not....

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While Planting

When I am with thee I am both weak and light yet I know thee - my body an interpreter, able to feel your breath in the breeze on its cheek the warmth of your golden afternoon on its skin, while your...

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Idyll

There comes, in the late afternoon an emptiness of purpose where there might be lingering in what’s left of the sunlight and we may dream and not think of beginning The view of the street is enough the...

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In Beauty

-for my Son on his birthday, in hopes that he may soon leap… The supreme pleasure in beauty the Creator’s perfections in beauty cast over the landscape of earth and heaven Rapture in the delectable...

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Taking Place

In the treetops, a wild morning is taking place Wind tatters the aging summer leaves branches sway sun glistens on the cold shoulders of the oaks. Night is dispelled, thoroughly. We in the clearing...

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Working It Out

I have been alone for days dusk and dawn breathing in the distance while the silence envelops like an approaching front. But don’t get me wrong, the weather is fine even as the coyotes call from the...

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