We Will Meet Under The Bodhi Tree Two blocks north the Zen center stretches in a sun salutation. One block south the Fellowship blinks its sleepy doors to greet the coffee makers and flower arrangers. We buckle on our Mary Janes you tie your soft-soled shoes we toss the paper up the driveway and turn […]
poetry
Scry: The Photo Tarot of my Grandfather, Dudgrick Bevins
After my grandfather’s death, my mother mailed me a pack of random photographs she found on his desk. The poems collected here refer to those photos, with each photo representing a tarot card and my attempts to make sense of his life and to reconcile our vastly different spiritual expressions. Poems may be taken together […]
Remind Me
by Sven Davisson Visiting Allen Ginsberg’s Beat snapshots at the National Gallery of Art an unanticipated sadness black crows circle out of mind grainy blackandwhite ghosts of my own childhood the skeleton of time reminds me hours spent discussing Shelley’s ‘Ode to the Westwind’ as breath machine Ozymandias and impermanence Remind me when we meet […]