Writing

Access issues of my twice-monthly letter, The Wild Now, plus a growing collection of poems, personal essays & creative nonfiction

Blood Roots

“All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Slicing through the black plastic pipe in

06 Jun

“What you gotta remember is sometimes change is good. It might not be better, could be awful for awhile. But

31 May

“When I was a little boy, I was afraid of white people. I would run away and hide. Now, in

21 May

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” — Albert Einstein In the twilight, they press their cheeks

22 Apr

“Tide: Stresses exerted in a body by the gravitational action of another... Every body in the universe raises tides, to

14 Mar

Wix

“Sleep, sleep, I croon . . . Sleep I sing—I who am unmelodious and hear no music save rustic music when a

26 Feb

“Without love, we are birds with broken wings.” — Morrie Schwartz, 1916-1995, sociology professor Who Do You Sing For? Just before

14 Feb

“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.” — Albert Einstein After the Earthquake, the World Goes On The

13 Feb

“My poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain . . . .” — Pablo Neruda Raining.

01 Feb

"When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is

23 Jan

“My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.” — Desmond Tutu For a moment, the

18 Jan

“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song” — Maya Angelou Heavy

01 Jan

“The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.” — Kurt Vonnegut Forget the universe for now—the earth is still

31 Dec