Death

 When we know

in our innermost

     bones

that to be

apart from

is to be

a part of,

     '

     then

no matter

how lost we

seem,

we're already

       home....

What The Doctor Suggested

Be as a stone--

smooth oval--

almost weightless

in the sometimes

murky, sometimes

clear, pond

of your living.

Nothing to do

here

but drop

deeper towards

the whispering

silt, this strangeness

beckoning

from your life's

bottom. 

Incarnational Theology

 Elegant skeletal

template

of the transcendental's

descent, messy

temptations and hard-won

learning transforming

tissues, reforming

hearts.

Replenishing After The Second Vaccine

Her tasty lentil soup, happily

slurped, but never sipped,

pushes the pout

off his poet's lips.

Later, with a mischievous

grin, aching arm and 

twinkling eye, 

the emptied bowl 

he'll give a lusty lick!

Dawn is 

a fullness

of tree

bathing

in birdsong....

Hiking Sycamore Canyon

Noontime is

a wild 

man

bathing

in greens

of dream....

each stone

on the road

shapes the foot

that meets it.