Meditation: Listening Listen. Nearby, water rushes through the hose, birds twitter in a bush. wind rustles leaves. Listen out farther. Crows cawing in a tree, hammers on a building site, distant dull roar of traffic. Listen for the sounds of clouds as they pile up, or scud along, or fold themselves into rain. Listen beyond. […]
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Read more "Bradford Middleton – WENT TO WORK FOR LUNCH"Better The sky? Blue. Has to be blue. That’s what she wants. A blue-sky postcard. Okay. Found it. “Dear Elaine,” she writes. “So this morning. Pumping gas at Speedway. There I am. The rain is gone. (Can we all sing hallelujah?) Nothing but blue skies. The bluest of blue. Truly. And a warm breeze. That […]
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Read more "Eugen Spierer – “Sometimes They Hit Me”"All night pine trees stand together – a cordon protecting us from what? * We sync up with the slow soggy heartbeats of a heron. * In silver glimpses fish dart in sunlight, churn the surface. * Driveway spider swells his body into her room. * The River Otter Under fog, a blunt nosed black […]
Read more "TIM STALEY – 15 LAKE MARTIN HAIKU"My Dejected Catholic Upbringing The earth contains a hundred trillion terabytes, which is a quarter of a God. Which seems low given my dejected Catholic upbringing. Sorry, in my clogged thoughts I forgot you were listening. It is beyond me to forget myself. There is light on the other side. I can see it in […]
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