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Miracle. All of It.

For the purposes of the book, Robin, who desperately believes in the sanctity of life beyond himself, begs his father for these nighttime, bedtime stories, and Theo gives him easy travel to other...

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Lightly Child, Lightly

Drifting, what am I like? A gull between earth and sky. —  Du Fu, (712- 770). “Thoughts While Traveling At Night”, trans. by Vikram Seth, in Three Chinese Poets: Wang Wei, Li Bai, and Du Fu Notes:...

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Walking. With a sound we do not hear that lifts the birds off the water.

I know it’s them. It has to be them. They’re back. The geese that I followed last year.  The Female that nested on the dock. The Male the hovered nearby offering ongoing protection. I scan through old...

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Monday Morning

The plan is obvious. Earth will become more and more beautiful until I can’t stand it. Then I will vanish. —  D. Nurkse, from his poem ‘A Clearing on Ruth Island’, published in Sangam House, March...

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We belong here, possum and person alike

The Virginia opossum who has taken to sleeping beneath our family room may likewise have only one surviving baby, but the one we have seen seems to be having a grand time figuring things out. On our...

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