Mind still whirls at 3AM. Night rests dimly alight, full moon pale on thin clouds and a dusting of snow, like candlelight on plaster and alabaster, pearloid and mother of pearl. Or like the ineffective light switches of childhood nightmares, throwing...

Do we live in a simple world or a complicated world? I think we live in a world we simply, as in unnecessarily, complicate. I feel blessed that once or twice in my life I have been able to pierce that vail of unnecessary complication and open the eyes,...

I dream I sat astride a silver horse And faced ahead a wide, shallow river The river, my life, as an hour glass, Far too much sand in its base, Far too few grains left to fall. In my hands, the reins, My pockets, small stones. I knew my path...

The Milky Way lay draped Across Orion's broad shoulders, Directly overhead. The swordsman stands Knee-deep in star-studded velvet, As an elk standing In the dew-strewn dawn of a forest's deepest moss.

Rain falls and The whole earth cries. I don't know if it cries in pain Or of loss. While crying, It rarely matters. I fall and No one cries. Way beyond the skinned knees And scraped up, gravel-embedded palms of my youth. When I fall now, Shit...