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In response to “Learning the Name” by Ursula K. Le Guin Read its name in English, such as crow or Swainson’s thrush. Read its name in Latin. Look at a picture of a bird of its species and sex. Write an equation to model its flocking behaviour. Add its decaying nest to your collection. Find Read more

Among the hundreds,      one leaf hanging. Pink hibiscus      flowers, just showing the sun their red      tongues, their pollen-blobs. Morning sun, the      most lovely: that angle of the rays, and the dust not      yet as risen as it is at evening. The world,      the hibiscus bush, the city: cleansed by darkness.      The light making a communion Read more

what tiny wants to put here for a moon First published in Uneven Floor, July 2016 Read more

The horse snorts and bucks and pulls at the reins But I am not the horse I’m not his rider either jouncing her brain up and down trying to recite calm words I am the trees and posts beside the path, the stones, the earth beneath the hooves, the sky within which he moves Not Read more

“… trying to touch the hub / between the spokes, the doorway / between the jambs, the pause // between the breaths, the ma / between the fragment / and the phrase”. Read more

Erasure from the Zhuangzi translated by Thomas Merton out     a hand down     a foot a knee like a dance     what is Tao? when I first began I would see me all in one mass after three years I saw but now I see with the eye free to work space finds its own way I cut no joint Read more