At the Hinge – Oct. 17, 2022
You brood in the night in its fearfulness,You dawn the day in its energy, You move at the edge of night into the margin of day.You take the feeble night and give us strong day, You take our fatigue and bestow courage, You take our drowsy reluctance and fashion full-blooded zeal.What shall we say? You, […]
All My Guests – Sept. 23, 2022
One by one, the guests arriveThe guests are coming throughThe open-hearted manyThe broken-hearted fewAnd no one knows where the night is goingAnd no one knows why the wine is flowingOh love I need you / I need you / I need you / I need youOh . . . I need you now And those […]
Desire for Emptiness – June 1, 2022
“All I bring to the darkness each night is what the Cloud author calls a “naked intent,” a wish to be empty and still in the presence of that for which I have no name. The author of the Cloud says that if you find this unexplainable desire welling up within you, simply wanting time without speech with one […]
Our Hearts Should Do This More – Mar. 16, 2022
I sit in the streets with the homeless My clothes stained with the wine From the vineyards the saints tend. Light has painted all acts the same color So I sit around and laugh all day With my friends. At night if I feel a divine loneliness I tear the […]
