Animal
You call me animal but I am not your predator. You bear your teeth to mebut I cannot see past your smile. You … Read More “Animal”
Tag: reflection
Curiosity
Look back in wonder“my 1st picture of Earth from Mars.”80 minutes after sunset on January 31, 2014. 99 million miles away. A … Read More “Curiosity”
A Scene from Cumberland Bay
Before his sister could budge him out of the way,Mendon climbsdown the rabbit hole to a window in the stars where everything worth seeing … Read More “A Scene from Cumberland Bay”
After Meditating On My Front Porch
I again realize that mindfulness is noticingstillness, how the inkon my paper has more than one color of black and feelsfluid … Read More “After Meditating On My Front Porch”
Down by the Pond
When I was 10, I had a gift. I knewwhat chirping silence meant to frogs. George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, … Read More “Down by the Pond”
As Benedictines
We see a single incandescent light beneath the pond,a flash at the bottom of four stemmed glasses, as if we were still in the Orleanais,where … Read More “As Benedictines”
Stormy Night
There is a loneliness to hail dropson a tin-roofed cabin.The woods and flowers and secrets ofmountains are lonely.So are the trails, ponds, … Read More “Stormy Night”
When Film Took More Than Time
I found this pictureof myself when Iwas less than a year old-September 1981 – in my mother’s arms, wading near a beach on … Read More “When Film Took More Than Time”
Like Raindrops
I am not a Buddhist (neither was he)I am a followerof the neonlight of liberation Free of being rightI strive to seehow my poetry can … Read More “Like Raindrops”
The Earth Is An Ordinary Friend
the oughtness of an ant&the secret codes of Hawthorn treesThe way Socrates said yes to the hemlockshe was an ordinary friend. That feelingof being stuckin … Read More “The Earth Is An Ordinary Friend”