Family Values
Shame is more important than guilt.Food is more trouble than it's worth.We're prettier than everybody else. Nobody gets what they deserve.Everybody has it coming to them.We're also smarter than everybody…
Nature Study
The stomach of consciousness needs to fill itself.Does the bird hop or walk? And when it landsDoes it lean back and spread its wings to slowOr does it dive head…
Secular Meditation
Wild parrots in a storm on Russian HillScreech their one vowel and eat the cherry blossoms,Not bothered by February rain and wind. Buddhism here in the Bay is fresh and…
The Orphan Quadrille
Lost arts of cochineal enamel and earthen bell foundry.Shelling of the Parthenon, flooding of Sioux burials.Let’s caper in memory of our mothers and fathers.(Step and turn, step to me, darling)…
Country Music
Ifeanyi says in his country a babyIs It until it learns to be one of Us. I am in my Igbo second infancy.The coral, a quarrel, a glacier, my lungs. The weather, the…
Veni, Creator Spiritus
Blessed is He who came to Earth as a BullAnd ravished our virgin mother and ran with herAstride his back across the plains and mountainsOf the whole world. And when…
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