• This Is Also You.

    This Is Also You.

    Therefore Jung postulated an unus mundus, a unitary world, which when observed from outside appears as matter and when observed from inside appears as the collective unconscious. – Marie-Louise Von Franz Our birthright vitality and consciousness, from which the technological world likes to separate us, remain rooted in the adaptability of our bodies and the…

  • Pumpkin Feeder

    Pumpkin Feeder

    White-breasted Nuthatch (male) Every year, I put pumpkins on my front porch in the fall. And when fall is over, or when it’s time to transition from Thanksgiving to Christmas decor, I usually cut up the pumpkins and put them in the woods behind my home for the deer and other critters to eat. Earlier…

  • Morning Poem

    Morning Poem

    on this morning, as on every other,i am a poet of disbelief which is better, I think, thanbelieving too strongly without room to be amazedtake, for example, the sunwhich sets the whole machine to rumblingthe toothbrushes in motion the feet strapped inthe hair still lightlydamp against the collarwhat an infinite rambling this life isand how…

  • Everyday Poem

    Everyday Poem

    of not so distant things and peopleas galaxies woven into the cotton, this is the constellation of happenings that make a life, sacred as washing behind the ears andpulling on the jeans, etc.and no less cosmicthis experience of floating through spacewithout knowing how fast we fall

  • The Harvest We Carry

    The Harvest We Carry

    i could die in a field of wildflowers if they would have mei could sift through November leavesquiet as a birdsearching for answers to cosmic questions while rain pelts the windowsand the cookies in the oven grow tall, like little domesi could write tales of kings and queens, of sorcerers and witches and warlordsconjuring images…

  • Part of the Silence

    Part of the Silence

    when i go into the forest, i am often overcome by an unshakable sense that silence is a placenot a building, but a cosmosand when i plant my muddy boots on the welcome mat, i am there to visit, to knock on the door of silence and, if i am lucky, be invited in for…

  • The Lazy Birder

    The Lazy Birder

    Downy Woodpecker (male) I am something of a lazy birder. I spend a lot of time and energy maintaining and enjoying my bird feeders, as well as photographing the birds in my backyard. But I rarely ever go out into the field–and when I do, “the field” is a park with a lake and hiking…

  • Stay Cosmic & Other Art

    Stay Cosmic & Other Art

    Stay Cosmic, paper collage, 2025 I recently purchased some new collage materials (courtesy of The Brass Grasshopper), including an interior design book from the 1970s, as well as a bunch of 70s Life magazines…and I’ve been having so much fun with them. That said, you’ll find several interiors, or inside-outside collages in this collection, as…

  • Tender Leaves

    Tender Leaves

    things take shape in us suddenlyand let us go just as suddenlythese days of tender leaves remind usthe doves, too, racing like comets across the skyas if to say, there is no miracle other than thisand as for youdo you have the grace to let goof that which has let go of you?do you walk…

  • Parachutes

    Parachutes

    how do we measure the anatomy of a moment?perpendicular, perhapsor with great color,incredulous as that may soundtake, for example, a sip of coffeein millimetersor a hunk of gravityon the breakfast tablewhere we sit in astonishmentas the eggs grow coldtime tells us that we exist with radio-like precision,but that, too, is a lie:a nickel in the…