Pear Tree

The mistake Eve made

was not in accepting the apple,

but forgetting, 

when the serpent turned,

to also take the pear. 

What Grows Out of Fracture

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.” 

~ Ernest Hemingway

The West Coast - Water and Heidegger

“To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.” 

― Martin Heidegger

Ferns Unfurling

To sink one's teeth into what cannot be removed or thought or sought after.

A green-softened spine curling up from its self, to its other. 

In the Gray Wood By the River

Somewhere in the gray wood by the river is the huntsman and in the brooming corn and in the castellated press of cities. His work lies all wheres and his hounds tire not. I have seen them in a dream, slaverous and wild and their eyes crazed with ravening for souls in this world. Fly them. 

          ~ Cormac McCarthy, Suttree.