Home From Mesa Verde Luminous ideas of clouds, soft billowing pillows adrift, moist Pacific exhalations float across Colorado from west to east. Ancestral Puebloan songs fill the forest outside our house when we are still. Drum beats and voices harmonize with the distant song of the Burlington, Northern & Santa Fe two-thousand feet below. Smoke … [read more]
Japan Haiku 1
Japan haiku I Summer Sendai rain my first home in damp shadows bright Cascade cloudburst. for Ozeki-san Utsunimiya, 4 July, 1996
Thank you
Thank you Dear friends fill my house The ones to live and die with Sun sets, as it should. August, 2003 Following my 50th birthday
Winter
Winter Haiku 1 Vast clear azure sky Blankets of dazzling new snow Winter days like these. 12.20.07
You Are My Tribe
You Are My Tribe I have worked in the outdoor industry for thirty-five years. “Outdoor industry” refers to those businesses and organizations that revolve around and support mountaineering, hiking, climbing, backcountry skiing, mountain biking, trail running, whitewater paddling and related non-motorized, non-lethal wilderness pursuits. In all these years, we’ve never been able to describe what … [read more]
War Record
My War Record For Ian, Athena and Megan The macho presidential “parry and thrust” of the past few weeks with the Democratic leadership demanding an explanation of Bush’s “lost year” in the “Champagne Guard” and the President returning fire with scandalous photos of John rallying with Hanoi Jane in the early 70’s, their “show me … [read more]
