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Blink and you’ll miss it: the new season is creeping in — I saw a first burst of yellow hanging in the trees from the train window the other day Drip, drip, drip, drip first thing upon waking my coffee maker percolates. Day by day, summer fades a crisp, crystalline blue sky in the morning as the sun comes up to bless us…

Sometimes magic is hidden in plain sight — Close together sway the pines whispering to each other spindly fingers intertwined Ancient rigid warriors in and out of time Haunting, graceful, deeper than flute the rhythm of the music breathed in whispers by the pines calls forth woodland creatures and spirits not of Earth but some distant realm Some…

Since the dawn of time, humanity has stared skyward at the reddened moon. — You rise like a blood-red sun over India Radiant heatwaves through the cosmos Summer triumphing over winter I feel your warmth baptizing my body, seeping into my soul Here I shiver Heatwaves of enlightenment pierce my consciousness The dance of seasons Another heatwave, another summer another autumn, another winter Linger for a spell Shimmer away the…

When I was 19 years old, I had just lost everything and been forced out of the home for being gay. Whatever earthly possessions I had were the few things I had been able to flee the house with and stash in the trunk of my car. I got on…

Pinpoints, halos, orbs, brights The world is lit with lights Lights, they blink, they shine, they glow How much of life relies on lights Does any of us know? From spark to fire, from candle to flame Light is light, no matter what the name Through a keyhole, under a…

I see you an ember glowing crimson, sparking into flame licking around the edges of your wood and twig constraints Write yourself free I see you Aurora borealis snaking north your dance burns electric wonder in a crystal arctic sky Write yourself free I see you tiny drop of water …

Amid this period of isolation, we grieve for what was and stare down our palpable sense of emptiness. — So many of us right now are feeling it — a cruel, nagging, cold feeling that keeps descending into our awareness during this isolated period, alerting us that something tremendous is lost from our lives. As one of my friends put it, “I wasn’t going out and socializing or even…