Internal Geography

Thank you to everyone reading from more than fifty countries. This blog has always been about the inner world — the storms, the deserts, the caves, the oceans we carry inside us. Wherever you’re reading from, I invite you to walk these inner landscapes with me and share in the journey they reveal. If you’ve…

In the Shallow Ditch He Hides

(Inspired by Washington Irving’s Headless Horseman, one of my favorite American authors.) In the dark hallow he rests, In and out goes his breath, There is the beat, Chu, chump, chu, chump, The hooves pound the earth, His heart beats, Waiting to see, If tonight is his fate, To fade away into the dark sky,…

Cat-Skill

Driven down the road, Talking to Tod n Charlie, Driving down the road, Waving to the woman on the Harley, Driving to town, Popping champaign and eating some Hardies, Hamburgers, Hamburgler robbed me and my woman, As we were driving down the highway, Waving at the dude who stole our Harley, Picnicking all day long,…