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Poem, “A Dead Man’s Soliloquy”

I will return In the wily spring Of your memories, Delayed, for a time, By shuffling tasks And the patient murmur Of my still-pulsing heart. It is the sleeping lilac That defines me now, Leading me...

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Nothing May Really Be Something

The Ancient Chinese Concept of Wu I continue to be mesmerized by the ancient Chinese notion of Wu, which, in the Dao De Ching (Tao Te Ching), is referred to as “nothingness, emptiness, non-existence.”...

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It Was There in the Past

It was there in the past Like a static barn With its aching wood Rippling through The seasons. Forgotten, Then a memory Of cemetery walks And tulips bending In the spring sun. Youth walking firmly On...

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