Pain
8 Climate
9 Bliss
10 Pebble
11 Foreign
12 Dust II
13 Dark Matter
15 Fire Season
16 Letter to Jim about Woodpeckers
17 Waiting for My Father to Speak
19 Second Look
20 Voyage
21 Nirvana
24 Spring Creek
26 Each to Each
27 Age
30 New Life
31 Aviatrix
34 Neruda Falls
35 Old Books
39 From a Ridge on Figueroa Mountain
Particles
The reason you do not clearly understand
the time-being
is that you think of time only as passing.
DŌGEN, AD 1240
We must endure our thoughts all night, until
The bright obvious stands motionless in cold.
WALLACE STEVENS, 1946
Winter solstice — the sun
stopped for a moment —
can you feel its light stretching —
as it shrugs off its migration
and turns back north toward the pole?
On this rock, just the right
distance from the nearest star,
sheltered
