The cat-saint says,” If I cannot follow him to the damp & dark from which he comes, cradled first in the needle bed and rocks-- then then...

The cat-saint, reflecting on one in particular, finds time to say, “Rains can't wither tails any more nor a tabby's puff-cheeks, powdery...

It's good to see, borne on the same savior wing, both flight and an airy death— Beyond the impassioned spiny needle floors coarsened by...

Just behind-- to one side of this koten canvas-- & reared up from base to top is a shady dome receding through the haijin’s Art: with...

( inspired by a photo I recently saw of Margot and her father) There’s a word for dad and daughter, for heart and the loneliest anemone...

At a Missions garden of Nile lilies, and yucca, a ginger paradise, lush, looking about ready to burst bloody to its toes: and through a...

Maybe the sand that holds up its end of a very cold lake can also sop storm surges, & the pesky zebras, passing through, that attach to...

She sits in her stone seat,beside two tractor wheels,musing, the jug beneath her feet,earth of clay at her heels-- dear Kate, prophetess...

La lune s’attristait. Des séraphins en pleurs Rêvant, l’archet aux doigts, dans le calme des fleurs Vaporeuses, tiraient de mourantes...

Even with lethal Tree &indomitable leaf, the woods breathe in frost and breathe out warm sandy shores, a water's cresting scent A forest...

Always dear but curving close to the door, cats like this can peel the light off a star-- slip it slyly under an eye, & still sleep A...

There's a moose sprawled on the highway as some spiritual food (pierced to its poor minnow heart) saying no to decay, exemplarily and...

"Life is short, eternity is long" (John Henry Newman) _______ It was face, and it was eyes, at first The asphyxiating power of chins--...

In Ephesus, standing somewhere between the hovel where Mary supposedly had spent her final years and the remains of the temple to Diana,...

A shiny leaf-haunted chestnut squats in dirt And the squirrel tail robust enough to sweep down hard on it, after a rain, is gentle also A...