The spirit concerns itself, after all else is considered, with the relationship between rudder and compass. Heart-warmed thinking from the soul informs, but despite the weather and the wind direction, the spirit steers the bark.
The Shopper I visit the grocery store like an Indian woman of Cuzco attends a cathedral. Repeating words: butter, bread, apples, butter bread apples. I […]
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what issa heard two hundred years ago issa heard the morning birds singing sutras to this suffering world. i heard them too, this morning, which
For those of you who don’t know, William Carlos Williams (some consider him the father of the “Beat” generation) was a medical doctor. It is
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Sweet Dancer The girl goes dancing there On the leaf-sown, new-mown, smooth Grass plot of the garden; Escaped from bitter youth, Escaped out of
Gratitude to Old Teachers When we stride or stroll across the frozen lake, We place our feet where they have never been. We walk upon
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ITHAKA When you set out for Ithaka, ask that your way be long Full of instruction, full of adventure. The Laistrogonians and the
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Robinson Jeffers 1887-1962 The Purse-Seine (1937) Our sardine fishermen work at night in the dark of the moon; daylight or moonlight they could not tell
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The Night House By Billy Collins Every day the body works in the fields of the world mending a stone wall or swinging a
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Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes First, her tippet made of tulle, easily lifted off her shoulders and laid on the back of a wooden
Marginalia Sometimes the notes are ferocious, skirmishes against the author raging along the borders of every page in tiny black script. If I could just
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