Words and sounds dance and fall From Stillness Landscape photographs birth bird flight Gnarly trees leaning from the invisible wind Until the wind drops The bird stops and becomes the photograph once more.   But if I look closer, Really look and feel into what’s real There’s a sense of stillness in the bird’s flight […]

It’s silent, here. Underneath the joy, The pain That I hold dear. This violent fear Of showing you my truth No longer holds me, dear.

I saw you once. Slipped by thought’s crumbling barricade Unsuspecting Garrison distracted And everything was different And everything was just as it always had been. I was you once. Breath crystal fresh Diamond sparks from granite And I was gone And I knew I had never been here. Once, once you teased As tired fruitless […]

Come, beloved Take my hand and lead me to the gate, Whisper the nectar-coated words Point me to the leafy green land of now-forever, Where we will dance the dance of the carefree and the happily-lost. Now, beloved, Years of searching, sitting, thinking, wishing Must end this moonless night, I have no more left But […]