“What I remember is the love, / The stinking of love in all that heat”

“seeds of forbidden / fruit spilled like tears / the fig forced down”

“And I, / Just like the mound of earth / My body tugged at / by death”

“it’s easiest to dream / when the breakwater breaks / and the tide rushes in”

“The salt water pouring into her mouth and / crystallizing the chords in her throat / into jagged garnet and obsidian”

“Moving from pillar to pillar / Post, to post / Like a bouncing ball.”

“But you endured over these hundred years / To be a symbol / To be the carrier of truth.”

“Yet he bowed his head, refusing the offer, / denying the existence of a higher being / he was taught to foolishly believe in at school.”

“Fractured smile / Don’t stay a while / We all learn.”

"My eyes flicker as the moon eclipses / and blue night dangles like a crescent / over my wooded backyard."

"Wisteria’s wandering down the archway in dusky purples I grasp / as I trip on my way out of the courtyard / carrying your gifts of sweet flowers and tahini.”

“Sweet summer fruit, this death / is not cruelty; / tragedy is absent in this worship”

“Will you bloom how you envisioned? / Or will flowers and vines / wrap around a new reality?”

“For that very brief lift to pause. / That there, over here, with a refraction of knowing / Circling our spring leaves”

“as we bask in heliocentric circuitry / and drink freely / from the well.”

“Suchness / without force / Suchness.”

“As loud as a drum / Waves in the ocean / Breath in my lungs.”

“Two months ago this lake was dry, / woods around it kindling / for fires that never came.”

“Blossoming red / like an / illicit phenomenon.”

“Then we’ll learn the earthen hardness of life / Into and out of the arms of routine, / of time, of bustle and begging.”