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August

Mid-August, I am deep in edits and rewrites of How to Be an Adult, which I hope to publish as an ebook sometime this fall. Today, though, I am working…

posted August 17, 2012

Stop Wearing Out Your Shoes

Stop wearing out your shoes.-Jeremiah 2:25 It’s because of the writers in my writing group that I got to see the full moon tonight. They insisted. And I had absolutely…

posted March 8, 2012

Good Times Are Here

Second in a series about the songs on our forthcoming album The Full Catastrophe I wrote “Good Times Are Here” in mid-winter 2008, soon after Barack Obama had won the…

posted March 6, 2012

House Like a Wheel (apologies to Anna McGarrigle)

What if a house were like a wheel?How would that be any different from the way things are?Your days would begin level enoughBut then as the sun rose, imperceptibly(Except for…

posted November 29, 2011

What Does The Fox Say?

What does the fox say?“I’m gonna get you!”What does the rabbit say?“No you won’t. I’m too fast.”What does the tiger say?“No matter how much I eat, I am always hungry.”What…

posted November 23, 2011

Beauty

The last time I saw youYou were the girl next door andI was the town BohemianI’d pegged you for a beauty queenAnd I was right.But I could not see your…

posted November 22, 2011

Finding God

It used to be The way to GodWas up a treeFeeling the bark againstNew palmsHoisting torsoOver limbsSpread eagleAt the topSwaying in the breezeNearer to Thee. Now I find YouAs I…

posted November 22, 2011

The Last Time You Were Here

The last time you were hereYou were driving on highway five in CaliforniaTrying not to smell the cities of cattleFetid and groaning with institutional dharma.He was riding shotgun And you…

posted November 17, 2011

Go Where the Love Is, Not Where the Love Should Be

My son is in love with a girl a year ahead of him in school who refuses to play with him. He has lost all the color in his cheeks…

posted September 26, 2011