30poemsinNovember
Poems
When They Said He Won
When they said he won, they meant release the prisoner––you––from her cage. You can gaze at the trees again. Look at them glow in the November sun––the leaves on the…
posted November 10, 2020
30poemsinNovember
Poems
America the Beautiful Nov.2020 addition
In November 2016, I started writing new lyrics to Katharine Lee Bates’s beautiful hymn. Throughout the last four years, I have added verses. Today, I wrote this. O beautiful DemocracyWhere…
posted November 8, 2020
30poemsinNovember
Poems
I Didn’t Know I Wasn’t Supposed to Love
Another thing I didn’t know I wasn’t supposed to love until college was squirrels. My babysitter in New York would take me to the park, and when I’d point my…
posted November 7, 2020
30poemsinNovember
Poems
Waiting for What I Want
Blessed are the meekFor they haveLearned to softenlike the clay at the bottomOf a riverAnd so they move,ProteanDiffusiveAmphibianNever attachedNever dryNever crackedNever broken becauseChoosing porousnessThey know nothing is wholly theirsWhich means…
posted November 5, 2020
30poemsinNovember
Poems
November 8, 2016
Remember the Trump signs that appeared like mushrooms overnight, shocking in their foreignness, isolated on the traffic island, and how they could not shake your faith? Remember the pungent blue…
posted November 4, 2020
30poemsinNovember
Poems
Last Kisses, 2020
These are re-written lyrics to the 1998 Nields song “Last Kisses.” David Nields, who wrote the song, has given me permission to revision this for 2020. My poem #2. We…
posted November 3, 2020
30poemsinNovember
Poems
I Remember that Other November
I remember that other November. Eight blessed days of itUntouched by what it would become;The extra hour a sweet gift After one last revelry:We wore Hillary as hopeHillary as superheroThe…
posted November 1, 2020
Journal
Sermon: “Back at the Fruit Tree,” with Scripture by Louise Glück
A Myth of Devotion Louise Glück – 1943- When Hades decided he loved this girlhe built for her a duplicate of earth,everything the same, down to the meadow,but with a bed…
posted October 18, 2020
Journal
When You Can’t Fantasize About Emigrating Because There Is No Where To Go
“Did we just witness the end of our democracy?” I asked Tom at some point during the horror movie that was the first Presidential Debate––which was neither presidential nor a…
posted September 30, 2020
