The Heart that Sees
What is truth?You should ask “What is the heart?”Start with all the eyes who weave around it,fixed and staring, locked and loaded:The psychological plumbing,The medical diagrams,the stories of love and […]
Trying too Hard (Karmic burdens)
Even the trees hold their memories,and the waters fall down the mountainsides ice and snow as gifts from starry skies: does any soul remember these? does any eye seewhere they empty themselves? how […]
Autumn
Death doesn’t concern us,nor does loss or dissolution;when the hard raindrops endnow is the doorway for the sun to come in,my footsteps walk on dead leavesthat crack and crumble like […]
Miracles: You don’t get to say
You don’t get to say how the light will shinewhy the eyes illuminate the shadow,or even why the moon peeks through the dark treeswhen you feel the subtle glitter of […]
Patience
the world hasn’t time to wait,for the seeds to grow,for the cows to eat the grass;for the moon to wax and wane,and for the water to flow,the time it takes […]
Material Marriage
as rocks tumble from mountain topsand the wind steals the smoke and the dustto hide those pieces away, inside purple flowers in the river vale below, the one who winds […]
Unity and the Blood
Every number is divisible from its limited form,and every limitation has no end to its troubles,even the Unity and the One can be divided into trillions,scattering a diversity that has […]
God is Death
do you wonder about the laziness of trees,branches that move only by the wind;fruit that falls by a scampering squirrel?I know that most people cut it down a notch,just to […]
Butterfly
and then there is the butterfly whose wings – if you can hear them –laugh the most when they’re yellow,a tiny light who giggles in the shadows,against the stolid wood […]
Love is worth that mad music
if you want to hear life,you’ll have to listen to your own,and,by the way,you’ll need to steal your own heart,and give it away for him to break itjust to see […]
Wisdom
What does wisdom look like to you? Does it look like Socrates?Does it look like a monk sitting on a rock?Does it look like a yoga teacher?Does it look like […]
a smile over quiet ice
it’s funnyhow he believes silence concealswhat he loves and what he does not;as if the wordless treescould hide their breathing limbs,from me,as if they could suppress such majestyfrom the eyes […]
The Rivers
the Rivers,the great waters who roam,between the fingers and the toes,those who fill your cups and pails,and who prod and poke the lazy rocks,to goad a primal impotence to move,wasting […]
I speak a beautiful bird
I speak a beautiful bird,and your eyes place him there,blue and red and yellow,you put him there, sweet bird;heart suddenly finds its wings,Oh, your light is his great sun;but I […]
Love as it pours down waterfalls
It’s a tiny place”,the little girl says,“It’s so small,that’s whatever it is,it’s only a circle,and I for onecan barely see it,much less talk about it. It certainly isn’t as big […]
Poetry reflecting home
we are here,as you read this,and you know who we are,a thousand little lights,the stars who liveand die.In the eye of mind,“a million years”is short for “forever”but forever is the […]
Oracular Intelligence 