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when i came here

June 1, 2026January 1, 2018 by bonesnsnow

when I came here, I believed
it was the mountains that called
and so they do…

Categories photography, poetry Tags buddhism, dogen, life, mountains, photography, photos, poems, poetry 2 Comments

message

June 1, 2026September 24, 2017 by bonesnsnow

every one of us
is so very far away

Categories photography, poetry Tags death, distance, friends, iceland, life, Loss, love, photos, poetry, rain, relationships, tears Leave a comment

Let Us Come Together

June 1, 2026July 1, 2017 by bonesnsnow

let us ask for nothing more…

Categories photography, poetry Tags family, humanity, nature, photography, photos, poetry, relationships, sunset 3 Comments

Home

June 1, 2026March 9, 2017 by bonesnsnow

…we begin by thinking that love
is something that happens to us
like a bee sting…

Categories poetry Tags children, family, future, home, life, love, parents, photography, poems, poetry, relationships, wedding 2 Comments

Wild is

June 1, 2026December 1, 2016 by bonesnsnow

wild is a fathomless
round eye

wild is feathers and fat,
muscle and hollow bones

Categories poetry Tags birds, fall, frost, nature, photography, poetry, utah, wild, winter Leave a comment

the stretch (Detroit ’68)

June 1, 2026October 30, 2016 by bonesnsnow

“how could the skipper leave the kid in the game at a time
like this?”

Categories photography, poetry Tags "detroit tigers", 1968, baseball, boys, childhood, detroit, family, home, imagination, life, loneliness, photos, play, poetry 1 Comment

touched by light

June 1, 2026July 11, 2016 by bonesnsnow

I’ve been touched by light
the fabric of clouds
on the leading edge of a storm

Categories photography, poetry Tags Aging, buddhism, death, karma, light, nature, photography, photos, poetry Leave a comment

first sight

June 1, 2026May 1, 2016 by bonesnsnow

so too must we all have been lovers…

Categories photography, poetry Tags eyes, karma, love, love at first sight, photography, poetry, reincarnation Leave a comment

wet dogs

June 1, 2026March 20, 2016 by bonesnsnow

  maybe mornings like this are the price we pay for all those years of compromise of being barely close enough to each other. We’ve survived, at least we share that, such a thin blanket to cover the cold spots on cold mornings such as this. Yet I do like grey winter days when the … Read more

Categories photography, poetry Tags cold, dogs, loneliness, Loss, love, photography, poetry, winter 2 Comments

love and death

June 1, 2026February 28, 2016 by bonesnsnow

going from love to love when I’d had

too much death, or death and death again

when love had become too much.

Categories poetry Tags death, jim harrison, love, poetry, reading, rexroth 2 Comments
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