Month: January 2013

  • Conundrums

    A miserable constitution should send one to class rather than to the doctor. The true child of the universe walks in confidence.  It is the child held captive in the adult body who flounders helplessly. There is no profit in knowing anything if it is not also a given. Urchin is the adult in process.…

  • Refuge In Dreams

      In the beginning when I was young and when I was very cold, I took my mammoth skin and drew it closer about me and found refuge in dreams. Like a tourniquet it stopped the flow of life out of me. Now I am old and I huddle still deeper in my woolen wrap.…

  • A God Work

    When we write our own personal ambitions out of the picture, we kill all illusions.   I feel kindly toward illusions and see them for what they are.   They are the finery with which we dress all the dailyness, all the scullery to make it not only bearable but to elevate it also.  That is a…

  • The Homecoming

    My warm breath makes a circle of clear space on the frosted pane.  I gaze at empty horizons willing your outline to appear to give this day extra measure. You move into view with water pails swinging, from shoulders whose strength I know by heart, with strides cleanly cutting the knee high snow, effortlessly. I…

  • My Exhibit And Reception

    FEBRUARY 10th  AT 2 P.M. An exhibit of my work at the Oak Park Arms in Oak Park,  IL.  60302 408 S. Oak Park Ave. I will have my wall quilts on exhibit in the hall gallery for purchase and also my books, Kiss The Moon and The Last Bird Sings will be available also…

  • A Fable and A Lark

    Adam arrived and called Eve to join him for dinner. She did and they feasted well in the beginning of the great deep. Together they cavorted and played and made love while merry. Cain and Abel arrived and the merriment ceased. They bickered and fought and competed for their place in the sun. The gods…