vespers (i)
for what will i sing in the gathering gloom? a heart’s desire which won’t let go? wisdom to feel what can’t be...
talking with rumi
rumi might say that love is just the other side of a stone wall your mind has built where green fields stretch...
(the problem with) nostalgia
i don’t really know the blood which flows in his veins (though we happen to share the same last name). and faced...
in between (once again)
on the ghost-white page we connect in a space far outside of time. and through these scribbled lines plucked from the margins...
somewhere up ahead
with hands thrust deep into pockets the hours slip silently past one into next without reckoning on this cold september morning. lost...
eighty feet per second
maybe von helmholtz got it wrong when he measured the speed of nerve conductivity as eighty feet per second, at once diminishing...
harvest moon
hot summer afternoons have long transformed all buds into bloom. from my shuttered room i peek out on a world of too...
ink dark moon (a reprieve)
beneath an ink dark moon she waited for me but i was lost in the depths of sleep, dreaming of a beach...