To Alexander Fu on His Beginning and 13th Birthday
byCut from your mother, there was a first heartache, a loneliness before your first peek at the world, your mother’s hand was a comb…
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Rutabaga
byYou darken as my knife slices blushing at what you become. I save your thick leaves and purple skin to feed the cows. A…
Voices
byI’ve been asking myself this question, “What role does creation – nature, wilderness areas, the physical world, getting away from urban environments – play…
Ideal Cities
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]When it comes to the work of Kim Beck, expect to be fully enveloped by the environments she creates, through the power of her…
The Eucharistic Cheeseburger
byFor most of my life I have enjoyed a fiendish love of cheeseburgers. Whether served at summer cookouts or through the drive‐through window at…
Stewarding Sight
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It seems to me that simply the act of looking is a way of stewarding creation. Creation is filled with endless beauty and…
12. from The Heart Pine Imprecations
byPassion for scavengers cease for the sentinel perched on a high limb falls from its colloquy a black sheen sombers such collaud toward vanity…
Blessed Nicholas Steno
byThough noting with incredulity their employment in the harnessing of winds, Pliny the Elder in his treatise on Natural History could state with more…
The Anthropocene Age of Extinction
byThis past June I celebrated my twenty‐fourth birthday. In the just over two decades I have been alive, humankind has accomplished truly incredible things….
Palmaseca International
byCali, Columbia After weeks of jungle and fresh mangoes we read pixels slowly. The airport TV beckons the news ticker all American flag tiroteo—Google…