On most visits to a coastal margin, I make something I call a “beach offering.” Beaches are places to find all manner of mysteries in object form. Like children, dogs, and many adults I know, I like to pick those things up. If the picking up is mostly curiosity, the giving back – that’s the … More A Field Offering
When I’m not writing about walking and landscape, I’m reading about it. A favorite journal, Empty Mirror, has this week published a book review of mine, discussing someone else’s landscape encounters – human rights lawyer Raja Shehadeh‘s, in his 2008 collection of Palestinian Walks. I’ve written multiple book reviews for Publisher’s Weekly, but those are … More Florilegium: Palestinian Walks
Issue 6 of the wonderful Sky Island Journal is out today! Included there is a piece I wrote around this time last year, when my heart was freshly bruised from the loss of my long-time tabby cat companion, Gwen. It’s a gift to look back on the word-alchemy of choice and grace that crystallized from … More A Song of Home for a Heart That’s Breaking
What a month, October! I’m full of gratitude, friends — and that restlessness that says “why aren’t you writing a new thing, right now?” This is a fine time to practice — in that sense of a first-grader learning the piano keys — the stillness of doing one thing. I’m going to try and just be here, … More Star Songs & Water Rituals
Published this week in Mojave Heart Review: Mother and Moon. They’ve set it beautifully, a nice clean reading experience, so please click through above.. They don’t use photos with the pieces, though, and you know I always do…so please scroll below, too. :) Mother & Moon Hummingbird fills up the symmetrical cup of … More Mother & Moon
Read it here in Mojave Heart Review or read below: Duck, Duck, Goose Why am I pleased with the rattle and shout of the towhee? Intrusive, right? Didn’t I say I like a quiet morning? The train fills up at seven a.m. with the hue and cry of these people — no … More Duck, Duck, Goose
Hello friends, I’m excited to announce that I’ve got some poems up just today, in the October 2018 issue of Mojave Heart Review! Loosely, MHR seeks a desert theme. No desert-dweller, I’m surprised how perennially fascinated I am by spare and arid landscapes, how much I’ve begun to seek them out. I suppose it’s not … More Chaparral Fragments
