The Silent Speed of Starlight
How far has that light come? People pass me on the interstate as I putz along looking up. The time it takes for me to see them is like starlight. Isn't it? Approaching. Receding. Until... More »
How far has that light come? People pass me on the interstate as I putz along looking up. The time it takes for me to see them is like starlight. Isn't it? Approaching. Receding. Until... More »
A little light was left, enough for the ghost deer. We stood by the fallow corn field, she and I, listening until they appeared, blinking, two, four, then seven or eight, then fewer, finally just... More »
I get up in the morning And brush my teeth. Behind me in the mirror Is a shale blue waterfall. I am closer than I think To being outside in the velvet Of rain, the... More »
New Moon But there's nothing there, It's paleness somewhere Between memory and possiblity. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I should Look more carefully into that blackness. Maybe it's growing from a speck of night lint. Maybe... More »
How did it get there I wondered. Chipped and chiseled away by A quiet voice, a great whisper Directed into its ear until this Weather had formed a niche, Now anonymously protecting From the cold,... More »