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Barry of the Wind Uncategorized

Barry of the Wind

The Names Project, AIDS Memorial Quilt Have you ever dreamed someone alive again, someone long dead, whose memory visits rarely? Have you seen the watery shine of his eyes, smelled the shampoo lingering in her…
March 8, 2018
RESET NaturePoemPoetryWriting

RESET

Reset This morning came twice to meet my wan welcome. There was pre-alarm almost-dawn when my eyelids were leaden, fingers numb after some sleep asana, and there was no joy in me to power the…
March 1, 2018
Tenure PoemPoetryUncategorizedWriting

Tenure

I offer you gifts of words newly strung and tender, strong and sometimes proud, words that are still humming with the cadence of my beating heart from which poems burst forth onto the page. I…
February 8, 2018
Lavender NaturePoemPoetryWriting

Lavender

When overwhelmed, lavender. When nerves fray, pockets empty, mind seems a tangle of wires, crossed and stripped— lavender. When ears ring, head throbs, eyes tire and lose focus from the too-muchness of it all— lavender.…
February 1, 2018
Snakery NaturePoemPoetryWriting

Snakery

Dance of the adders photo by Matt Binstock 2014 I wanted to say let my people write, or sing, or paint. Let them take their hair down and doff their shoes to march together with…
January 24, 2018