At year's end

A year a month a day

a couple of hours [late]

three autumns

four seasons in sequence of non-

rudimental convictions.

Month in a week

day long[ed] hours dreadfully missed;

time still the only way

to gauge existence here

against the unsurmountable

notion of absence.

A year a month a day —

what kind of a difference make?

If any, or more.

Winter Solstice

"I hear

the tide turning. Last

eager wave over-

taken and pulled back

by first wave of the ebb."

— Denise Levertov

_ _ _

Winter rushed in last

on the crest of a full tide

veiled in mist whiter 

than snow blanketing the dirt

heavenly pure, predestined.

Happy December Solstice! Welcome Winter 2014!

Dream a dream

"The eye should learn to listen before it looks." — Robert Frank 

Most coveted ―

Revere

". . . and lean not on your own understanding;" ― Proverbs 3:5

Prayer

Apparition

To sail the Seven Seas

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Window-Shopping XXIV: Onda de Mar (Summer 2013)

Reminiscing forward

There are these words and things I mis[s]-

placed amidst hesitance and fear -
to seek uncovering onward

"Keeping things whole" (Mark Strand)

In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.

When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body’s been.

We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.

― Mark Strand (1934 - 2014)

Crossroads

Black and white switches, "Bergman" tubing

Fractal [e]scapes XIV ― [A]historical

“Sometimes you gotta go back to actually move forward. And I don’t mean going back 
to reminisce or chase ghosts. I mean go back to see where you came from, where you've been, 
how you got here. See where you are going . . .  
I know there are those who say, you can't go back. 
Yes, you can. Just have to look at the right place.”

_ _ _

"A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense ahistorical." 

― Juliet Mitchell