Brief thoughts on #CruzSexScandal: You know, I don’t care that much about politician’s sexual conduct. They’re adults with private lives, with failings, with difficulties like the rest of us but amplified because of their power. It’s kind of mind-blowing how much power is at play in holding high-level U.S. offices and huge elections. The … More #CruzSexScandal, hypocristy, and Matthew 7:5
I posted the first completed version of “The Rites of the Living” earlier. And I’m a compulsive reviser. Poems leave the pencil of fall on the keyboard curtain and then I immediately start playing with them. They grow in the sunlight of my imagination, sometimes getting horribly tangled and messy with arrows going here, scratches … More The joy of revising a poem – “The Rites of the Living” again and again
Yesterday I posted a piece on lovers called “Your Fey Mane.” Lately I’ve been reflecting on love and lovers a lot. Sex, our acts of sharing hands and lips, the bonding of our bodies, they captivate me. Us. I’ve come to a place where I think of all of our ways of sharing ourselves as … More The Rites of the Living – Love, Nature, Sex, and Affection
Lovers are the most captivating things of all. “Fey Mane” Coquette, you chew your lip and shake your head,surprised by these moments,still smiling a nose-curled invitation. Lavender drifts through cool air.Mahogany irises back away, toe to heel to wall.Your fey mane, brings cheeks out in relief against white walls, a dark living frame. Do I … More “Your Fey Mane” – A love poem
Peter Walks for Democracy 