The Young Who Teach Us

Jim Zwerg left Madison Wisconsin To be part of an intensive seminar In American satyagraha In Southern viciousness In the ways power twists the human soul In the ways the human soul resists power He…

Nothing Special

I don’t aspire to the New York Times op-ed page Or The New Yorker I’d be pleased if Eileen Mosher “likes” One of the free verse mind flows I write to and for her My…

Nothing Special

I don’t aspire to the New York Times op-ed page Or The New Yorker I’d be pleased if Eileen Mosher “likes” One of the free verse mind flows I write to and for her My…

When We Are Artists

“When the artist is alive in any person, whatever her kind of work may be, she becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature.  She becomes interesting to other people. She disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens…

Note to Cami on Reznikoff

I read Reznikoff in summer of 2010 As much as I could find Used, at Amazon By him, about him I like his spare style That was the year I was generating a piece a…

The Good News of a Sangha, 3.25.2017

Five years ago today, Jenn Reyes Lay and I started a  St. Louis sangha in the lineage of Thich Nhat Hanh.   Annie Fitzgerald offered Sophia House  on Gibson Avenue for our first gathering. Many…

Breakdown Precedes Breakthrough

Graham earned enough to be under the taxable limit Because he didn’t want to pay for war He couldn’t say “No” when someone asked “Would you help us fight back?” He gave and gave and…