by lobsterbird | Dec 27, 2015
this holiday season, i am contemplating presence and how that may be the only gift we ever really need to give. my sister, Alicia, and i were up late wrapping presents on Christmas Eve. while this is not unusual, i congratulated myself on being ahead of schedule on...
by lobsterbird | Nov 26, 2015
today i am not going to do any work. today i am going to be grateful for all life’s blessings. for this one day i will practice opening, listening, and acceptance that i may embody this love in all the days to come. with a thankful heart, a calm mind, and...
by lobsterbird | Nov 22, 2015
after: Leonard Nimoy The truth is We cannot love Love is Some thing Spock thought about a lot Or not Rather it was the man Behind the masks Like his most known Identifying name He came to be An old-fashioned Space-man Because he searched love He trusted And with trust...
by lobsterbird | Nov 18, 2015
“Would you feel better if we left, Fletcher?” asked Jonathan. “I certainly wouldn’t object too much if we did …” Instantly they stood together a half-mile away, and the flashing beaks of the mob closed on empty air. “Why is it,” Jonathan puzzled, “that the...
by lobsterbird | Nov 11, 2015
my skin is but a boundary you could pierce right through. like the surface of water, so easily penetrated, from a certain point of view seemingly solid. its tension caused only by its attraction, our molecules magnetized towards one another. this water skin has a...
by lobsterbird | Oct 25, 2015
lettuce dances. did you know that? i saw it today perform Swan Lake, its last song sung before it was flung into my burrito, a picnic in the wind. chairs also sing, performing improvisations as we sit static unsuspecting of anything more than a chance to rest. (our...
by lobsterbird | Oct 20, 2015
Always in motion is the future. ~ Yoda, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back ~ three days ago would have signaled my 12th anniversary of moving to NYC. today i found this draft from September 16th, 2012 (written just a month shy of my 9th anniversary of moving...
by lobsterbird | Sep 4, 2015
The most important thing is remembering the most important thing. ~ Zen master Suzuki Roshi ~ Bambina is my “Little Elephant.” i met Bambina when we were serendipitously placed together as roommates during study abroad in Italy. we became fast friends as...
by lobsterbird | Jul 2, 2015
today i realized all my poetry is about love. and cats. but even those cat poems are really about love. because what else is there? when you look at the world and all you can see is destruction and devastation due to the fact that all we need is love and don’t have...
by lobsterbird | Aug 20, 2014
Every life and every death begins the same way, with an exhale. We come into the world with a cry and go out with a sigh, each of these expressions floating on the out-breath. Buddha’s disciple, Maudgalyayana, taught his own student an important lesson by showing him...
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