Tag: Meditations
- I Can't Imagine Being Dead / 2000
I want to sit facing east before the San Jacinto peak at the computer inventing the particulars of a life that unfolds in my head. First we must build the wall
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sits on the dining table for now, too precious yet to store. Proof of a past — of mortality. Such fun in the humid Mexican heat, the clear waters a blessing. Th
- International Sweetness / 2004
My seventeen-year-old German vehicle, practical, sweet to drive, timeless in design - a box, really, is resurrected with a modern Japanese engine, finally sorte
- Dogs and the Cold Snap / 2004
We pretend the discipline of once-a-day feeding, old raggedy assed Coco and the Queensland Heeler. They do their morning dance as the dishes are put before them
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Springsteen, at the top of one phase, sold out, of course, the mid eighties, thundering his blue collar magic to so many white collars, poets, old protesters, b
- Eclectic Coffee Mugs / 2005
At seventy-two, I drink a hell of a lot of coffee, sometimes in the middle of the day when my energy sags and I just don’t want to pick up the damn tool to cont
- So Ten Minutes Ago / 2005
Look here. Now. Do you see? The time is at hand. Wake up dummy. Drink coffee; eat a bagel. Think possibilities. Outward not inward.
- The Talking Wooden Frog / 2006
I drag the pestle across the wooden toad’s arched ridge so it may croak. When I first heard the sound, the realization that who- ever carved the little dude, ho
- Asleep with my eyes open / 2012
There is time to think of the moment only if I have consciousness; I do mean, mind you, the act of being un-asleep. Thoughts are relative. I can be quite awake