Tag: Nature

The trouble was the familiar one: too much power, too little knowledge.

July 18, 2016

The trouble was the familiar one: too much power, too little knowledge.  The fault was mine. “Damage” by Wendell Berry Friends and citizens, Tonight the Ferguson Township board of supervisors will have a number of hearings on ordinances and resolutions on domestic hens, a small change for the year’s budget, a possible traffic calming study, and … More The trouble was the familiar one: too much power, too little knowledge.

Independence, Interdependence, and Common Sense.

July 4, 2016

Happy Independence Day! Today I honored the birth of our nation by reading Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. Reading it has brought me to reflect on some of its wisest passages. Paine’s arguments apply to today’s local, national, and international issues as well as they did in 1776. He calls out the problem of government and … More Independence, Interdependence, and Common Sense.

Sacrifice Zones

March 31, 2016

Follow the link below to Mike Badges-Canning shares his thoughts on the tragic seizure and sacrifice of private land for private benefit, for deforestation, for disruption of tradition, for the corrosion of the common good for the falsity of our common wealth.     Yesterday, I spent most of the daylight hours on the Gerhart … More Sacrifice Zones

Flight

March 11, 2016

Who knows how many iterations this will go through? I’m not quite sure of its shape yet, having already put it through about 10 drafts. It’ll be a while. Since I have submitted this poem with a different title–“FROM AR RAQQAH TO ALEPPO”–to a journal, I’m taking down the full draft. FLIGHT Phalanx exhaust over xeroscape … More Flight

Reading at Webster’s: The Omega Rite, The Fox, Open for Business, and Hume at the Melting Places

February 27, 2016

In January, I read from Heartwood at Webster’s Bookstore and Cafe. Here are some videos that my publisher, Penny Eifrig, took. J. Harlan Ritchey’s art is at my feet in the videos. He drew the cover and internal art in Heartwood. “The Omega Rite” is the opening poem in the book, a sort of overture … More Reading at Webster’s: The Omega Rite, The Fox, Open for Business, and Hume at the Melting Places

Heartwood featured in the Art Buyer’s Guide of Central PA

January 11, 2016

This quarter, J. Harlan Ritchey​ and I are the cover feature for The Art Buyer’s Guide to Central PA for our collaboration on Heartwood published by Mt. Nittany Press. In Heartwood, I wanted to  “observe… who and how I was in the world and the world was in itself… and put those reflections into evocative poems.” Harlan’s art certainly helps … More Heartwood featured in the Art Buyer’s Guide of Central PA