Tag: Noticing
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Early Morning Walking Poems
Two poems written while walking around on retreat at Holy Cross Abbey in Berryville, VA.
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Poems from On High
Each of these five poems was written on a recent flight from Washington, DC to Colorado, inspired by the view of the landscape below from 30,000+ feet. Golden thread of silt and commerceCities strung like pearlsAlong your banksWhere do you go?Where is your beginning?To what end do you flow? Fossilized dinosaur spinesor maybe…branching treesreclining for…
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The Parable of the Purple Flowers
One day, when it was finally cooler outside, a homeowner went out to mow. With the upbeat pop-rock of U2 to accompany her, she had mowed the front yard, battled the fairly steep “hill of death,” took a brief but tremendously tedious interlude to pull invasive English Ivy, and was nearly finished mowing the backyard…
Journeying Together 