Poetry in the Moment

moonlight creeps in the door ajar her heart has been closed since azaleas blanketed the mountain misty morning I open The Art of Loving her ...

For Yosano Akiko and Martin Heidegger mesmerized by Akiko's Tangled Hair I encounter eros as infatuation blooms into love dumbfounded ...

in memory of John Lennon (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) nostalgia whispers Yesterday into my ear seeing her moon face I raise my hand....

he leaps away from the gaze of silence over the edge of a cliff and into a place that less fleshy lonely, I turn on the TV and see a depress...

devotedly I pray ...

for Martin Heidegger like a child shoved down the playground slide scared I reach this age forty six a long strip of white sand washed by wa...

for W. G. Sebald I awake eat, read, write, and sleep the Mondays of present follow the rhythm of the Sundays of past walled-in room a clut...

embracing a dream that dances to the rhythm of my heart I jump to catch the moon for you not seeing we pass each other by in corridors my dr...

dewy morning birds chirping children playing somewhere in maple leaves sunlight breaks into pieces intertwined over the back alleys maple le...

for Matsuo Basho Basho's frog jumps in an old pond no sound heard yet it ripples in the minds of poets where there is neither pond nor f...

for  Mahmoud Darwish I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have tw...

for Martin Heidegger I wish I were you forever frozen in glory a smiling graduation photo looking in the mirror a few lines on my forehead...

for Søren Kierkegaard buried under piles of books about Him I rant and rave He stands by and keeps throwing His words to believe or not to...