Poem: Chair

There’s a chair that whoever sits in it
becomes less proud
Grocery bags tumble their contents
out on the ground
Buildings reflect more sunlight
There’s a doorway that whoever stands in it
becomes more transparent
God’s Light shines through
The rooms we go from and the rooms we
go to are the same
full of illuminated furniture and
wise beings and intelligent conversation
And whoever goes through [...]

Video Poem / Salmon

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Poem / Salmon

I leap these giant salmon falls
like a vertically charging bull
wild eyes wide and blinkless in my
brute determination to get home
though it cost me my life
to bring life to life and the afterlife
and the whole world is doing the same
in my eyes
Look at it urging upward against the
downrush leap after leap its mouth agape
pulsating crouch springing [...]

AUDIO POEM: The Only Real Life

AUDIO POEM: The Only Real Life

Poem: The Only Real Life

The only real life is the soul life
say what you will
The only real world is the next world
we’ll soon know
The bicycles of the sky disperse into
cloudy drifts
their spokes farther and farther apart
The famous hills and dales of
the earth fall and rise rise and
fall
throwing up snowmen and fire demons
in their congenial upheavals
Once one footing’s established
the rug [...]