Hummingbird

In my hand, I’ve cut flowers, and they are already passing, in their blossoming — some, have stayed, others flutter, incarnadine, to the green weavings, of the grass. A hummingbird comes, studying the tremor, of just my hand, in holding these. And begins...

The Transparent Barrier

Against glass — that fluttering noise, like the beating of feathers at the broiling embers, in a tea ceremony: Just that sound, that I heard once, seconds only — in time, sitting there in Kyoto. But it is a hummingbird that’s come into my house,...

12 Moons

There have been twelve full moons, this year. And each has had its expression, for us all. Each has meant something, shining to each of us, for a moment. From the brilliant clarity of the winternight orb –all is quietude over snowfield; to the mystic revealings...

Mnemonic

the notion of memory is something that has struck me hard over the last couple of days. I went to a performance the other night called mnemonic. By Theatre Complicite, it was a marvelous “weaving” of the tapestry of the electricity that we understand as...

Find Fear

I had been talking with someone — a potential client — about the notion of fear, finding fear. Seeking that space of fearfulness and risk. He said that some of the ideas I offered scared him. He liked that. It took him away from his place of comfort. It is...