27 August 2010

Today will not last.
And tonight will also pass.
Loneliness remains.

27 August 2010

24 August 2010

One of my favorite artists is the Japanese woodblock print-maker Maki Haku (1924 - 1999). I recently bought the print you see here (titled Owl-A), and as I looked at it, I began to see a snow owl, at night, in a tree, waiting...

Winter night. New moon.
Snow owl waiting in silence,
Watching for movement.

24 August 2010

23 August 2010

So the time has come.
Gone, days of peace, quiet thought.
Here, days of clamor.

23 August 2010

11 August 2010

Time to go back to work, back into the classroom, back to dressing like an adult.

Next week I will wear,
For the first time in two months,
"Business casual."

11 August 2010

9 August 2010

My dog nuzzles me
While I try to write. Better
To rub her belly.

9 August 2010

4 August 2010

We just got back from a week in Stratford, Ontario, where we spent most of our time in theaters, at the Shakespeare Festival. But we also indulged me--by finding a number of old industrial buildings in varying stages of reuse or decay. Including this one, about which we could find out nothing...

Vacant factory,
Its roof gone, windows broken.
Its story untold.

4 August 2010