I entered Grace cathedral on Saturday with its three-story high arched Anglican ceilings, its neon lit Jacob’s ladder, “Jacob’s Dream A Luminous Path” created by Grace Cathedral 2016 Artists’ in Residence, Benjamin Bergery and Jim Campbell along with traditional stained-glass windows and saint depictions, to sit in the quiet […]
Have you seen the many video clips, “warning this is very graphic and may be disturbing to some,” played and replayed across your television set. Have you watched the deaths of, murders of black people splayed on the news- local, national, international. Below is my poetic response. When I first […]
A brief note on translation before I begin. It is a truism in poetry that when a poem is translated from one language to another it becomes a new, although closely related, poem. Some words are untranslatable, others are used differently so that line meaning changes. The issues of rhythm […]
I have been thinking about apologies lately. Amy Cooper, a white woman who called 911 in reaction to a Black man who requested that she follow park rules and put here dog on a leash. She indicated she was being harassed and was in fear of her life. Her […]
I love walking through California meadows. If it is not bramble full, bare feet are best so that I can catch the rhythms of the earth under my feet. I was walking through my meadow this morning, my meadow that used to be a neatly trimmed lawn in the front […]
Well to be absolutely factual, I might, maybe even probably, would have lived. Everyone on that part of the bridge at that moment did not die. One man who was driving a truck layed down on the floor as the roof of his truck crushed towards him. He lived. But […]
