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the world for a little longer

Posted on Oct 25th, 2009 by Laura

A friend recently gave me a copy of Louise Gluck's book of poetry A Village Life. I have had mixed feelings about her poems in the past but I love these. She creates a simple,... More »

all that fire

Posted on Mar 17th, 2009 by Laura

I found this prose poem in my book The Party Train: a Collection of North American Prose Poetry. Once, fire was used to put out water. When a house was drowning, buckets of fire were... More »

Little Cloud redux

Posted on Mar 7th, 2009 by Laura

  I don't know what the weather is going to do. Big winds share the twilight with small snow. Over in the next county, there's a funnel cloud, but it's moving slow, and it's not... More »

the inaudible language of the heart

Posted on Nov 6th, 2008 by Laura

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. - Martin... More »

Barack Obama on education

Posted on Sep 13th, 2008 by Laura

Little Cloud

Posted on Mar 10th, 2008 by Laura

I don't know what the weather is going to do. Wild spring winds share the twilight with small snow. Over in the next county, there's a funnel cloud, but it's moving slow, and it's not... More »

soon

Posted on Feb 23rd, 2008 by Laura

I will actually post something I've written soon. the past few weeks have been a stream of images, music, art, travel, film, poetry, food, stars, and change. The Big Dipper looms huge over the portal tonight.... More »

kneeling in the grasses

Posted on Feb 8th, 2008 by Laura

We have forgotten what we can count on. The natural world provides refuge...Each of us harbors a homeland, a landscape we naturally comprehend. By understanding the dependability of place, we can anchor ourselves as trees.... More »

If you could gain one character trait, what would you pick?

Posted on Jan 26th, 2008 by Laura

I keep running across this notion of equanimity in my reading more and more of late. this notion of compassionate acceptance (as opposed to an emotionally barren indifference) is what I most want more of... More »

Scope

Posted on Nov 7th, 2007 by Laura

  Last night I read something about impermanence and I remembered the time when my mother gave me the kaleidoscope. She handed it to me, a brass cylinder in a soft blue velvet cloth with... More »