2004Jan22 (Poem) Thursday Indeterminate Veritable attributes Of the queen of cups Found in every woman A word of hope In a lexicon of sex Is flirtation Anticlimactic Because She’s not here Like each sparkle In every eye Emanates from her And I have walked Trudged across a spectrum From ‘anyone’ who will To here where…

2004Jan14 (Poem) Wednesday Clarity Organized thought Loveless dissolution Integrated half-truths Solemn vow Unspeakable secret

2003Oct12 (Poem+) High mountain morning sun Wind swept, textured sky Aspen chatter, fire crackles And even coffee can’t break the stillness that is everywhere. I worry about money, my dogs, my teeth – but I just need someone to love me. This unspoken solitude must be destroyed – if not by God then by a…

2003Oct11 (Poem+) Saturday Much madness is divinest sense to a discerning eye – thematic, anorexic solitude is not blindness but distance as if an eagle has a more objective view from high above reality – what changes, what reality so different when I fall back to the earth! Personal truth is inherently subjective, our dreams…

2003Aug04 (Poem) To think that words are not hollow Shells or fragments of unmanifest thought Vessels empty of action To think how full the void. Resonant sound from a plucked string Wine breathing the same air that floats a ship Or makes snow even as it saves a skydiver The void sets an eagle adrift…

2003Jul12 (Poem) [no date, may be Jul19] Comfort day – Shabbos morning grace Exceptional beauty Sophisticated stride Place of indulgent words and drink Love in all even as she walks away A gem’s value may be it’s flaw But the light comes from it’s facets Introspection is a hall of mirrors All ways the labyrinth…

2003May06 (Poem+) I am in love. Or in light. There is a visible – blaringly visible – delicate glow that permeates all that there is. Lightening strikes a spiral ripple in this lake of emotion; there is the same wellspring at the center of our lives; the same spark or glimmer – am I insane?…

2003May01 (Poem) From the book of unforgotten sorrows I lament my departure From the light-filled being I once found With you. It no longer matters If the star I see Is from crawling through a tunnel Or falling down a hole That your radiance, Even when just a glimmer Incites me to live Inspires me…

2003Apr30 I see All thousand points of light And there are shadows That record the space between waves In an ever expanding funnel Like a spiral cyclone Situated rests Make a staircase And there is a downward draft A falling luminescence Gently pressing On the crown And the ground The eye itself Becomes peaceful And…

2003Apr23 (Poem) Stairs and steps Extend one’s life Even as sun and water Cure all things Calligraphy and photography Both write for the eyes And poetry is beauty Loving is living A spiritual bridge Built one stone at a time Spans our lives As we step toward another day Climbing as if we could take…

2003Apr14 (Poem+) Where have my words gone as if I am afraid to mar this page, because it is the first, though days pass by like page after page and no one can remember the beginning. It is as if the human condition is a simple state of being ‘caught between’. We start reading the…