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nothing has changed only the forms of it

nothing has changed only the forms of it when we wedded the struggle brought us before a mayor who joked, run as fast as you can don’t let the dictator catch you

Muon

A fifth fundamental force might help explain some of the big puzzles about the Universe that have exercised scientists in recent decades. BBC The key to how the world works: Muon.After the fog had withdrawn one morning,I hiked up the mountain trail to seewhat...

TWO POEMS

KUNG FU POEM You killed my master In syllables two seconds out of synch with the lips,while a crooked finger points back to himself, vengeance smoldering in a fingertip,preponderance of death in a single knuckle. Wind and wine, be still, be without form—be water, which is never...

What Is Your Name?

How do you call yourselfwhen no one, not even you,listens? Where do you find the wordswhen everything escapes yourthoughts? What stories come to lifewhen images are no longerreal? When do you stop hearingwhat who always calls your namesays? How do you begin again?

FALL

How lovely to imagine he fall.In many ways, how true is that word for the season? And how the Bible has it in its very first chapter,Only beginning, and yet already there. Things fall, their the last act of grace –Leaves, bright red in postcards...

Flyleaf

Of fairy tales and future fakes, We twist our limbs until they break We force the fit of gown and gold We try to do as we are told But all our stories lost their way And all our stories end today We’ve had a sigh, a single pause We’ll start again with “once there was...

Random Pickings

Four Poems for the Future

Nothing’s Too Far There is no escaping the long arm of memory, & the more I try to, I turn to it instead: During trips to my...

PRAYING YOUR WILL?

There you go again,Praying for yourCreature comforts.Brain’s drying up,I see,Though summer’sNot been around That long.Seasons haveTheir uses,Did you know.Summer is so thatFlowers can growAnd bees...

Hometown

Here the seashore stores The footprints of strangers And stories about the oceans Like nobody knows until now where the first wave came from And open secrets of ancestors Like...

Salt Prayer

"There must be something strangely sacred about salt.It is in our tears and in the sea."from SAND AND FOAM (1926) by Khalil Gibran Matthew 5:13—...