Monthly Archives: June 2022

Civil Burn

Things incandesce.  Glow with heat, break into flame as a water glass sitting on the edgeof a sunny table will alight  and you’ll find this small burning thing wanting— wanting — as prayer, as silence of the answer.   So the doubleness … Continue reading

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In Defense of Ardor

These are dark times,Open the window, the sun shines today for 15 hours 10 minutes.   And windy, a piece of lettuce is blowing off my lunchplate. Gesundheit, we say to the sneeze heard through the open window. On my summer reading … Continue reading

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