My writing

My writing that is published on this site, including lots of creative commons poetry.

  • Turnings

    Return is how the Way moves. ——Laozi   not enough windows—electric light at noon electric light at noon—not enough windows   a wood stove just like my mother’s—rusting away rusting away—my mother’s like just a wood stove   a garden screen, weathered planks hung on firm posts—my yoga wall my yoga wall—hung on firm posts, Read more

  • Tao is the way / trees curve / their branches, twigs, / leaves, / and hang, with / gravity and … Read more

  • I wish I could stop searching and be      content A good enough apartment A good enough job A good enough social life A good enough yoga practice A good enough routine A good enough family A good enough diet A good enough wardrobe A good enough mental state A good enough world An adequate revolution Read more

  • A dumb Daoist

      trying      to lose perspective      and see the butterfly     opening his letterbox      the odd man from Unit 3 who could be anyone     each red      bottlebrush flower its particular angle     morning sun      waking every new leaf      a dumb Daoist weeping   Read more

  • In virtual reality      my son told me you can now move a ball      with your mind A helmet with electrodes      gathered the waves An experimental subject      gradually learned A digital exoskeleton      slowly adapted In a matrix within the Matrix      a sphere rose and fell In a dream I tele the lights on and off      by Read more

  • 43 poems, a metafictional narrative, 4 essays. Explores how poetry might bring together spiritual and scientific discourses, focusing on philosophical Daoism, physics and systems theory. Novel scholarship on poets Judith Wright, Randolph Stow, Ursula K. Le Guin, Rebecca Elson, Cilla McQueen, Frederick Seidel. Read more