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I see the Earth I am looking at Her and smile Because she makes me happy. The Earth, looking back at me Is smiling, too. May I walk happily ...

three blocks later they're still kissing

When I am born again make me a drum, make me an anchor of rhythm for your hands. Make my song break locks, open windows, fill bellies. ...

Otherworldly, they may be naked & speaking a language you can’t understand. They test you on long division. You’re unprepared— This o...

See more of these gems here . I think this would make a great poem to "workshop," swapping out your own place-words to achieve a n...

It could have happened. It must have happened. It happened earlier. Later. Closer by. Further away. It happened not to you. You survived bec...

If you have been working toward a promotion or a raise, things might finally start to loosen up on the job front now that Mars is again push...

From tarot.com: Perhaps you have reached a phase in your life when work starts to lose its prominence. Of course, you must be dutiful enough...

January 2008, here's what the stars have in store for me: You are in a transition in which you are fundamentally coming to terms with yo...

I remember the room in which he held  a kitchen match and with his thumbnail  commanded it to flame: a brown sofa,  two easy chairs, one co...

Been pretty unhappy w/ work for a while now - up and down, certainly, but more often down than up. Been vaguely dissatisfied with the way I...

God, give us each our own death, the dying that proceeds from each of our lives: the way we loved, the meanings we made, our need. ***** You...

Every family has one -- usually the one  who writes, the one who spills family secrets  onto the page like so much grape juice  on beige ca...

from Poetry on the Bus My mother's hands are silken gloves Woven of the warmest thread, Embroidered by the day, year, life. Each care...

Eric & I got married last Saturday, Sept. 29, 2007. I still can't bring myself to tell the whole story -- Friday night welcome dinne...

Ever since flirting with being an Objectivist my first year of college, I've been fascinated with the idea of philosophy. I wanted to k...

This is the cover for the Voces Program Anthology coming out from UNM Press this Spring. I am sooooo excited!

Realize the strength in weakness in the space between stronger forces. You do not need to be the mountain or the man rolling the boulder up ...

A wise [planner] does not inspire people with grand visions for the visions will become [illusions]. A prudent [teacher] will not call atten...

To consider your preaching of more importance than the opening of a flower is to leave the narrow path. To value certain appointments on you...