Happy Fridayz! OMG this is so freaking beautiful! Yes, to this world of Naomi and sharing! Yes to the powdered sugared web of existence and connection! Yes to cookies! Yes to poems hidden in your ears, and to ripe avocados, and ability help others, and sun dresses, and kindness, to be able to love, and … Continue reading Naomi Shihab Nye – Gate A-4

For Nabra Hassanen, Dear Nabra, I have never heard of you until the news talked about you - and how I wish I have never heard your name, and how I wish you were alive.  You have been dead for a few days now, and I am thinking of you and many beautiful young children whose … Continue reading Nazim Hikmet – Hiroshima Child

Happy Summer Solstice, Y'all! I hope love is being served in every bite of every watermelon, and corn is being grilled in the backyard, and eyes are being filled with kindness. I hope that you are taking a nap under a magnificent magnolia tree, and I hope birds are washing their wings somewhere in the … Continue reading Nikki Giovanni – Resignation

You can listen to him read it to you here: https://youtu.be/rYrE_DOmZbo?t=37s Then you can open a window somewhere, and listen to the side walk purr like the cats in Istanbul on a warm summer day under the Walnut tree in Gulhane park. Then you can listen to the lovers laugh gaily on the street corners. Then you … Continue reading Leonard Cohen – Two went to sleep

Poem: Mark Strand The Remains I empty myself of the names of others. I empty my pockets. I empty my shoes and leave them beside the road. At night I turn back the clocks; I open the family album and look at myself as a boy. What good does it do? The hours have done … Continue reading Mark Strand – The Remains

Antalya: 77  °F Chicago: 65  °F San Francisco: 55 °F Orumiye: 74 °F Tehran: 86 °F Marrakesh: 94 °F Hammam Sousse: 75 °F Washington D.C: 75 °F Okinawa: 77  °F Poem:   Cemal Sureya Now Sweetheart Now sweetheart, I am thinking of you in a big city  A dim blue pen in my hand, two packs of cigarettes in my pocket  Our life is … Continue reading Cemal Sureya – Now Sweetheart

Elizabeth Bishop One Art The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster, Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master. Then practice losing … Continue reading Elizabeth Bishop – One Art

Happy Birthday Loren Baxter! NOT ANYONE WHO SAYS By Mary Oliver Not anyone who says, “I’m going to be careful and smart in matters of love,” who says, “I’m going to choose slowly,” but only those lovers who didn’t choose at all but were, as it were, chosen by something invisible and powerful and uncontrollable … Continue reading Mary Oliver – NOT ANYONE WHO SAYS

Oh boy... Time has lost it's mind, birds are on strike,  pianos are drunk, clouds are driving, and there's carnival of leaves in the wind. Did you see my hands reading poems to the night's smooth skin? Nick Lantz How to Dance When You Do Not Know How to Dance You and I fit together … Continue reading Nick Lantz – How to Dance When You Do Not Know How to Dance

I was sitting in a bar a couple of nights ago.. (I'm sure you have read this from me many times - but bars are one of the places that a lot of life is being made, and I like to go take a piece of that when I can. Week nights are the most … Continue reading Rilke – Book of Hours, I 2