Flight from Portland

"as i trisect my life, so falls our sun as if unfurled banner won and each of my defended vows inquires “but still… salvation justice truth requires but more than words?” my mind insists on flight… acu..."

"Corpus Christi* (in memory of Matthew Shepard) “you are pulled from the wreckage of your silent reverie… you’re in the arms of the angels, may you find some comfort here…” -Angel, Sarah McLach..."

"Fire (a poem of A.M.) i want your fire… that charged spark that draws us all to you like moths even when your heat threatens to melt us… we all cling to you, our leading column of flame we convince..."

"-Collected Works— I have desired to go where springs not fail…       --Heaven-Haven, Gerard Manley Hopkins His being –I recall its deep sweetness: wine taken in my mouth, here opening, forever wai..."

"newfound. (a poem of Seattle) shelter takes form in a rainy dismal city adorned, indeed fringed with –only rainbows and, long journey completed I take hope take sustenance in home not even yet seen ..."

"the desert, too, is beautiful (for Andy) and you’ve got thorns and prickly things under your flowers, i know. but wandering across endless, dry sands i cannot but hope that each mirage yields you..."