The Climber (for my grandfather) The slow climb upward, out of himself, into the clarity of air remembered, tries his patience, bends him double, breathless, cuts, with the rungs into his… more »

STRETCHED INTEGRITY   So many images flying about. So much that staked a wizardry inclusive of our trying to find something remarkable. Not enough of all this to go around. Or too much, too much that flies off. Just wield your stretched integrity… more »

PROOF OF VITALITY   What keeps vitality intact? What more than everyone coming & going, lunging across the bow, leaping where all comes true, where each & every cell opens at last, rehearsing some vast comeback when the whole self arra… more »

                         EIGHTY                                                                                       (For Stanley Keleman)     Time has stamped each page done or turn or next and yet these can be read backwards, letters runn… more »

THE POLITICS OF THE VIEW   What does it cost to see the distant sun uncovered, wild in the desert of our hopes overall a winning descent surmise of limit, diurnal clouds covering light but farewell all told and a deep forecast, living in the… more »

after Dante or Why Suffer the Pearl?                  for poet Victor di Suvero Believ'st thou not I am with thee and guide thee on?                                                                Virgil. Purg III, 24   You Yogis/Yoginis Vedantist/… more »

  LANGUID UNDERTAKE     Coined adversarial, Swept into a load Confused, reaching Stumbled stasis, rife With intentional duplicity—   Now comes the shellacking Twixt now & forrriver Sweet dumpling hip hooray A man’s melancholic babe She… more »

PRESENCE TO KNOW OR FIND OUT   But now it hits us again This granular sense of texture, Living in a waking dream or light Or back into unconsciousness—   Squeeze the nomenclature forward, Draw exchange or the fluid interaction In our ongoing di… more »