Monthly Archives: June 2016

Gardenia

Posted on June 28, 2016 | Leave a comment

When the sky
opens beneath you

and you do not fall,
you hesitate to tell others.

What can you say?

The faint scent of gardenia
in the still air before nightfall.

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Garden Bridge

Posted on June 25, 2016 | 6 comments

Ivy grows up through the boards
of the garden bridge.

A rabbit runs across the bridge
and stops in front of me.

We stare at each other,
waiting to see who will move first.

The next morning I am not there
and the rabbit doesn’t stop.

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The Place Where You Are

Posted on June 17, 2016 | Leave a comment

The world is no better than its places. It’s places are no better than their people while their people continue in them. 

–Wendell Berry

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Tickets to See Bob Dylan

Posted on June 6, 2016 | 2 comments

Distant
pale Ginsberg
beacon

shaggy haired
owl
chant to us

of sweet
Melinda
in Juarez

and gravity
and negativity
and give us

a reason
to howl too
tonight

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Goodbye Muhammad Ali

Posted on June 4, 2016 | 2 comments

“I wish the people of the world loved each other as much as they love me.”

–Muhammad Ali

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