What I said to the Wanting Creature
I said to the wanting-creature inside me: What is this river you want to cross? There are no travelers on …
Category Archives: Reflections
Sorrow, it is not True
Sorrow, it is not true that I know you, you are the nostalgia for a good life, and the aloneness …
To Aphrodite of the Flower, at Knossos
Leave Crete and come to this holy temple where the pleasant grove of apple trees circles an altar smoking with …
Last Night, As I Was Sleeping
Last night, as I was sleeping, I dreamt – marvelous error!- that a spring was breaking out in my heart. …
A Flower No More than Itself
She was there on the mountain, still as the fig tree and the failed wheat. Only the lizards and a …
Random Thoughts on the Love of God
… Creatures speak in sounds. The word of God is silence. The secret word of God’s love can be nothing …
Is my soul asleep?
Is my soul asleep? Have those beehives that work in the night stopped? And the water wheel of thought, is …
Maybe
Sweet Jesus, talking his melancholy madness, stood up in the boat and the sea lay down, silky and sorry. …
The Journey
The Day We Die The day we die the wind comes down to take away our footprints. The wind makes …
The Treasure
Mountains, a moment’s earth-waves rising and hollowing; the earth too’s an ephemerid; the stars – Short-lived as grass the stars …
Remembering the Sacred Self 