thoughts

  • fear wants to

    fear wants tohold my handbackfrom writingagainst hate the timesof violence arebackin our yard,Mr. Chaplin language—butthe heartshould…

  • Linking and shifting between poetry and music

    A remarkable number of well-worn wallsonce paintedwith loveand love. Early in my social media times I…

  • Tanka, Or Not A Tanka, That’s Not The Question.

    Revisiting Jane Reichhold‘s take on tanka. I wish we’d go back to that, and even further,…

  • Makoto

    In future, I’ll sign my poems with ‘Makoto’. Masses of water,falling till it hitsand flows all…

  • This Trust

    The thing with trees isThey remind me of hugging . . .Arms branch out,The leaves breathe…

  • Things, Names, Expectations

    Thinking. Isn’t it weird that we give things names? But what we do for real is…

  • Prora*

    The nose of the red quay wall, Street III,(it has never been used)has broken off. Shards…

  • … an ode to tanka

    Tanka are a vessel for holding tough things. I don’t want to add “in a beautiful…