On Building Capacity

On Building Capacity

either/or both/and The Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris took 182 years to complete in the hands of skilled craftsman and visionary architects who knew they likely wouldn’t see the finished masterpiece. And that’s what it is, a masterpiece of generations....
Reclamation

Reclamation

During my walk this morning I saw the long shadow of my self cast against the hoar frosted meadow as the sun crested the rounded shoulders of the ancient mountain to the east. The space between daybreak and sun’s rise is longer here on the western slope giving us a...
The Late Night Guest, Visit III of IV

The Late Night Guest, Visit III of IV

and if i wake in the hour of angernot late enough for an early mornnor early enough to be a late nightwhen thoughts quicken with energy to burnis this visitation a responseto too much taken in out of habitor maybe not enough inhabitedor something altogether...
The Late Night Guest, Visit I of IV

The Late Night Guest, Visit I of IV

do i wake in the hour of grief to remembersomething just out of reach, filled withdisjointed words and half finished sentencesand more than a condition to treat? a guest, whose train only stops at nightwith diamond from coal in exchangefor a glass of water to quench a...
Deep Bow to My Abiding Thighs

Deep Bow to My Abiding Thighs

sorry palesglossing over all that’s passedmountains and moors held in jailwith neglect and abuses so crass for the memories i couldn’t barethe young traumas and stale regretthat clung fast not to be sharedforever paying on an old debt  for the efforts to fix and...