elision poems

: Teach only LOVE : decades old mantra   borrowed to build my teacher self my conductor self my self self. A...

about the white egret   whose ancestors soared west from what is called africa to what is called south america both vast continent...

too still the long hours wear thin Emily’s feathered friend sleeps so silently  that i forget her and am lost til she flutters

Ukraine. 2022. Everywhere.   another war my first thought quickly extinguished in crushing awareness   war...

circumscribed life   today, like every other before today—for long enough that i’m beginning to forget my forme...