When You Don’t Speak the Same Language

We sip tea at a long table, waiting for another Taoist monk to speak to us. This will be the…

My Grandfather (HS 136)

He walks around the valley every morning,deep in composition beneath the shadows of trees and cliffs,a circuit of crystallization, mile…

Wow. This is a way too much longer walkthan my sister told me it would be.Maybe I turned wrong somehow?Maybe I…

May the insignia of the light they cast substantiate me,driving my aim for words written to convey everythingI can glean,…

My grandparents, all four,they bless me as I come into this world,I bless them as they go. Go to college,…

When the moon whispersBelladona, dance,lighting her with its slightest touch,even if the wind is barely there,still a smallest of breezes…

She stands alone, a little hunched, a bump slowly reshaping her back,this empress of her mom and pop shave ice…

She said things, at an early point in the relationship, as though sometimes she were saying them to someone else. I…

I love, at first, that you commented on everything indiscriminately,pointed at this or that, attached sounds to whatever ideasran around…

It was a real page-turner. The way he described walking down the avenue on Saturday afternoons made the whole scene light…

When you taste it now, you can’t believe why,but there was a time you actually enjoyed it,how on earth, when…

I am not a very courageous man. In fact, as I grow older, I feel as if I’m becoming more…

I think I remember when I didn’t have to possess things.It took seven years to figure out what to dowith…

I hear my laughing, a laughter I can’tduplicate anymore, rolling down fifty years,the clink of glasses, raucous toastingto whatever lay…

The stage is empty, uncrowded, the clipped smiles werebriefer than the blink of a glassy-eyed battle fatiguethat runs deeper than…

Sometimes when I’m sick, I think I liveso far away from the world that I’m on the other side of…

Once I was convicted, sentenced to be a prisoner of love,I did my time willingly, reformed my ways gladly,mended with…

Tomorrow you will fly half way around the world, and with layovers, it will take youjust over 48 hours take…

Although I’ve heard the mesmerizing call to prayer many times a day while I’ve been here in Egypt, it struck…

This far ahead I wager on, for I have seenenough to think I do see into the future this. For…