The Chandelier Competition What would you use to bring light into our lives? Candles? Crystal? Mirrors? Sparklers? Fireflies? Solar Trickery? Your entries, boxed and...

      from Mesopotamian Objects 4. Necklace Dear Friend, Send me a necklace of beads that few have ever seen, beads made of gold, electrum, precious stone or amber, which is the tears...

      Bite Me There is stuff It can be very convincing It's easy to swoon It's easy to be charmed But I'm a cynical bastard And have seen too many Attempt to distance themselves With...

      69th Birthday Transmission “The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”     -- Thoreau Day two, early early morning group sit, zendo floor tripodding with potential...

      fragment winter is dead clouds break and a sliver of sun from a chink in the brittle sky falls on a tellin cracked eggshell white and a tiny star of chionodoxa blue as the blue...

      Snow Train As the snow is tidal in the trees, consider the tracks and the dark tons asthmatic with steam, cold as the moon`s slight, black as the star`s hide, perfect as a pulse...

      Speak after Faiz Speak, because your lips are free Speak, because you have a tongue Because your golden body belongs only to you Because you are still alive See how in the...

      Cliff You don’t remember this point? A stone cottage balanced on a cliff. It was spring, the previous guests left thrift in an egg cup on the shelf. You don’t remember the...

      Seven Winters for Trish Howley Once I lived beneath a lemon tree, wore sandals all year long, air on my skin, mud squelching between my toes after sudden rain. Seven winters...