The other day, I stood in a checkout line at a department store with a pair of shoes in my hand. Across from me at the other register, two people waited their turns. One was a young man, muscular and tattooed. The other was a middle-aged woman who had cerebral palsy. She held a bright red shirt on […]

One of my only regrets is that I haven’t been able to travel more. The circumstances of my life have required me to stay for years at a time without leaving the southwest desert. I did manage to get to Great Britain and vicinity a few years ago, and I’ve gone to the Midwest too […]

no comfort knowing
that I am not the first,
nor millionth from the last,
just one beneath the cross,
as the son bled god
the mother, dreamless now,
flickering, a shadow
of a moth
around an ancient fire
aren’t you proud? and I say
I am frozen,
rigid with worship.
I have touched his uniform,
robe of a  holy man,
yet beneath the cloth
I feel the boy
and know his […]