Poems

The Great trees Speak 

Sky will never wean us 

nor suns wane

nor tombs keep

nor our shagged selves

shout themselves

in language of your screech.

In the long talk of slake 

of rain come down rain  […]


Ordinary Time audio

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Big medicine, Small Morning

 Big medicine came small 

as the blossom I did not see 

staggered in the February blast

of the grey cherry tree 

until my friend lightly

so lightly brought it home to me […]


On Falling in the River with Margaret Fell

So I sat me down in my pew again, and cried bitterly. Margaret Fell. 1694

When I sat down, the silence
was already rising,
a river of quick fire. […]


Examined

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