threads of the spiderwoman

  Girl and Horse 1928   You are younger than I am, you are someone I never knew, you stand under a tree, your face half-shadowed, holding...

  "I was a hidden treasure and desired to be known: therefore I created the creation in order to be known." -- Rumi I have a new l...

I talked about summer, and about time.  The   pleasures of eating, the terrors of the night.  About this cup we call a life.  About ha...

I used to write the occasional poem, but that doesn't seem to happen much any more.  Perhaps the Muse of Poetry has flown away, fi...

 If you think medievil thinking is a thing of the past, think again.  As we progress into a future of massive over-population, diminishing r...

 Griffith Park, 1928 Girl and Horse, 1928 by Margaret Atwood You are younger than I am, you are Someone I never knew, you stand u nd...

An odd poem I rediscovered recently, originally inspired by Margaret Atwood's Circe/Mud Poems .** I re-read this collection recently,...

“What might we see, how might we act, if we saw with a “webbed vision“?.....The world seen through a web…as delicate as spider’s silk, ...