In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

Grandfather Space. The Mind is his Wife

Forests in the tropics are cut to make pasture to raise beef for the American market. Our distance from the source of our food enables us to be superficially more comfortable, and distinctly more ignorant.

Having a place means that you know what a place means...what it means in a storied sense of myth, character and presence but also in an ecological sense...Integrating native consciousness with mythic consciousness

My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.

The other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.

A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.