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  • Veteran’s Day – More than fighting

    This Veteran’s Day I am thinking about the legacy of veterans that goes beyond wars and weapons, to the ideas that compel people to take up arms, and to the wisdom that is gained through experience, especially such transforming experience as war. Germany, in the early 1930s, was a shithole country. Not that our current… Read more

  • Two sorts

    “Mankind is composed of two sorts of men – those who love and create, and those who hate and destroy.” Jose Marti Read more

  • Anxiety of course

    Anxiety, of course, and unknowable future heartlands where malleable mountains ache to satisfy my soul wait with a mouth still wet from a hungry kiss to lick to smile to tell that strange and potent ancient truth Read more

  • Like most people…

    Like most people, the first time I saw a ghost it was hanging over the bathroom sink. Part of him was me but most of him was not. What was most recognizable about him was the fact that it would take very little effort to shatter him into shards. Read more

  • The darkness…

    The darkness that came to swallow us Took from you activity Took from me identity And left us two gifts from the thief of time: The emptiness that fills us up And the sleep that exhausts us Read more

  • A New Life

    Somewhere in a smile or word a disease that spread unchecked is cured a weight is lifted, letting me escape from dark eternity and knowing things I hadn’t known I find a new life being grown Read more