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“After a long battle” I heard of his death on the radio. And now,and now, I wonder how I will die. Days shrinkwith darkness and chilblain rain. We slideon black ice, car slams into car, love’s gone mad.We have sung, … Continue reading →

Over the past 8 years, I’ve left or lost several jobs. Some I’ve left because I couldn’t connect with the person(s) running the show (love the work, hate the job, ya’ know?). And some I’ve been asked (told, directed, shown … Continue reading →

I’m reading through my own poems this morning, trying to put together a manuscript, and I’m having the ominous feeling that they are just terrible. I hope to recover from this shortly.

Sending out my wish for a good year for all of us in 2012. I’ve just spent 8 days in Miami, going back to the rain forest of Tacoma tomorrow, but here in the tropics (although it went down to 35° … Continue reading →

I was thinking how a love relationship is like a fabulous rock group. There are these moments that are absolutely splendor, totally in-sync, harmony and grandeur, and you can’t imagine anything else but more music forever, and then, behind the … Continue reading →

after hearing a version of it by Ben Kweller on the radio yesterday.  Ben’s singing and guitar picking is lovely and true to the Hebrew hymn. I appreciate that, most Christians don’t seem to know that it’s a Channukah song– … Continue reading →

I’ve had a pause in writing and I feel it as a loss. But I have accomplished something during the hiatus. I’ve compiled 2 manuscripts: one is a book length collection that I’ve entered into a contest, one that I … Continue reading →

I am remembering a particular feeling today, a familiar discomfort: things dropping from my hands as I walk from room to room; moments abandoned in order to rush to other moments; lists of things undone; pressure and guilt about things … Continue reading →

I feel the withdrawal of not writing. Not posting. I feel a bit lost. We were given an hour of light in the morning, subtracted from the fall of dusk, and even there, it recedes daily and will continue to … Continue reading →