Borderlands Moon
Borderlands Moon New Moon May 8, 2024 Time of grass pendants Little bells of glassy green With a hint of autumn already haloed Weeks before they dry on the stalk Their spindles, their Sufi whirling prayer One rooted ankle turned sunwise All the way to the center of the earth In response to provocation of air […]
War Is Over (If We Want It) Moon
War Is Over (If We Want It) Moon Full Moon April 23, 2024 This morning I sit in the incense Of jasmine & marvel at the intersection Where we meet—how wild the body The earth, the mind, the twining solar field How wild the scent of spring water under willow And open—how open to each other, […]
Gum Tree Oxygen Moon
Gum Tree Oxygen Moon New Moon April 8, 2024 One day soon our moon will say to us to anyone who listens— I am always going Under cover of night disrobed in transparence as deft & casual with beauty as any flowering spring the moon we share will go This unsurpassable breath Seeds fill the air […]
Implicit Association Moon
Implicit Association Moon Full Moon March 24, 2024 Yes, first moon of spring, We are in a strange moment & could use some illumination. Here, early in the day, Already street ceremonies underway Metal rattles & petrol drums. I read poetry in a dark room That speaks in the affirmative While crows rasp outside. Blue lupines, […]
Brought To My Knees Moon
Brought To My Knees Moon New Moon March 10, 2024 The war In our hearts Goes on Small faraway moon We are blessed beyond The sayable And still I confess The pain of compassion Interrupts another day The vast dark infinite Hummingbird lightning This seed of peace Is there a secret Buried in the sky Dear […]
Seagull Muses Moon
Seagull Muses Moon Full Moon February 24, 2024 I think of gravity and bones When I see the joggers scud along the mud flats Peopled with non-human selves poking protein from silt How the grebes and cormorants seem to gulp Before diving out of sight to fly underwater. I wonder how long this wind will blow […]
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Moiré Effect Moon
Moiré Effect Moon New Moon February 9, 2024 Oceanic patterns herald evening here A loosened palette of sky that welcomes attention Gray with rain or pink furrowed tundra tilted Through which we each believe we have seen an owl Glide from out over the bay toward the green place Where frogs emote their post-solstice panegyrics It must be […]
Moon On Water
Moon On Water Full Moon January 25, 2024 moon I saw you see me see you grow all night all day this month this life gathered at the top of the sky then falling again ascendant call. Poem by Qayyum Johnson. Painting by Suiko McCall. Self-forgiveness is Primary Peacework, 2023. Ink on paper, 60×45″.
Our Invisible, Crazy Hearts Moon
Our Invisible, Crazy Hearts Moon New Moon January 11, 2024 Mostly you don’t see the moon in a city So a new moon is a double-blind bind An experiment in lunacy for lunatics Imagine all the pollution, poverty & injustice That you perceive become thin stars While the new moon that you cannot see Swells infinitely […]