Monthly Archives: December 2010

  Alone, In the distant meadow A large black crow Pecking Seeds Left by Starling swarms, Turns his blue Iridescent neck To pause As sunlight Bursts through An opening—- Above, Clouds In turbulent color Fly By  

    You find a flower half-buried in leaves,And in your eye its very fate resides.Loving beauty, you caress the bloom;Soon enough, you'll sweep petals from the floor. Terrible to love the lovely so,To count your own years, to say … Continue reading →

‘Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Santa and reindeer On the Twenty-fifth of December, in 2010; Hardly a child alive will be without yen Who won’t be excited this famous day and year.’   … Continue reading →

  Hey-some of my kinda ‘away-in-the-manger’ friends showed up for this gig: “This is Bodhi-B, ‘Ace Reporter’, giving you the bow-wow on the B-B-B-Beat!!   Hopin’ Y’all will just make like a tail…and wag.   See you soon from the … Continue reading →

        When despair grows in me and I wake in the middle of the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where … Continue reading →

SISTER SOLSTICE   Down the hall Late, The light Turned off; The bedroom Dissolves In a night moon Slanting through The gated blinds. There are different Kinds of darkness. Always is the wonder If color lies Where, Imagination Sees in … Continue reading →

   …The Whale… If you read a recent front page story of the San Francisco Chronicle, you would have read about a female humpback whale who had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was  weighted … Continue reading →