The Muse All Artists Chase
This poem was written to Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings op.11 For the audio accompaniment as you read this poem, click here. There’s not that I can softly say That […]
The Logic of Loss
A phone call A message you did not expect Words that you hear but cannot detect A voice flat with grief that explains to you That an awful nightmare has […]
John The Beloved (Part II)
There are so many voices So many screaming for attention Confronting me with choices Many more than I could mention An ocean of chaotic change Time flowing strange The people […]
I Have a Dream, You Have a Nightmare
To all those who hate: A sideways glance, looking down on a brother A hurtful phrase, a violent haze The pitiful shame as we hate one another The thoughts in […]
John The Beloved (part I)
Marginal cost, marginal benefit The mathematics of loving true I had hoped that this might be significant That you could value me And I could value you – Forgive the […]
An Existential Fantasia
or, “What am I?” I’m a little bird. They told me so. From the moment light spilled through the cracks in my little shell, And I felt the rush of air […]
The I of the Spider
The little brown spider hangs high in the tree He grins as he spins, he is spinning for me He falls and he crawls as he carefully weaves Each […]
The Life and Death of God
Your breath crystallizing in the dark cold night As the starry expanse welcomes you to Bethlehem You’ve come full term with your destiny And divinest joys well from the depths […]
Cloud Kings Collide
The cold of the east-driven wind Whips the barren face of mountaintops Their glossy peaks veiled in heaven’s suspended rain The swirling continents of air churning over one, over another […]
The Headsman’s Ball
The desperate pursuit for satisfaction often leads us down the wrong roads.
Rhyme Written In Red 