by Ju | Jan 19, 2021 | Poetry, Robert
With the Benefit of ‘Kindsight’ ‘Love After Love’ The time will comewhen, with elation,you will greet yourself arrivingat your own door, in your own mirror,and each will smile at the other’s welcome,and say, sit here. Eat.You will love again...
by Ju | Dec 28, 2020 | Poetry, Robert
‘Brother Body’ I was reminded recently of my fragility after the coronavirus rudely invited itself into my body and overstayed its welcome for two weeks. I wasn’t my usual self, and my body was also acting in unusual ways. As though it barely knew me – in...
by Ju | Nov 10, 2020 | Poetry, Robert
‘Where I Am Going’ Where I Am Going Again the murmur of my own deep life grows stronger, flowing along wider shores. Things grow ever more related to me, and I see farther into their forms. I become more trustful of the nameless. My mind, like a bird,...
by Ju | Apr 27, 2020 | Poetry, Robert
I Worried I Worried I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the riversflow in the right direction, will the earth turnas it was taught, and if not, how shallI correct it? Was I right, was I wrong, will I be forgiven,can I do better? Will I ever be able to sing,...
by Ju | Apr 17, 2020 | Poetry, Robert
Insurgent In this season of the Covid-19 scourge, my front yard plum tree stands in singular and solitary bloom, reminding me of everything that is right in this world. This is the urgency of beauty declaring itself in nature through blossoms, equally expressed in...
by Ju | Mar 10, 2020 | Poetry, Robert
Pure Gravy Gravy No other word will do. For that’s what it was. Gravy.Gravy, these past ten years.Alive, sober, working, loving, andbeing loved by a good woman. Eleven yearsago he was told he had six months to liveat the rate he was going. And he was goingnowhere but...
