Twenty days of sojourn

Posted: June 10th, 2010
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Drifting with the river stream

Two old Japanese tanka poems and photos of the St. Croix River to accompany them. Continue reading »

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Stay together, learn the flowers, go light

Posted: March 31st, 2010
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Me and Gary Snyder, City Lights Books, October 24, 2004

A new documentary features Gary Snyder and Jim Harrison wandering around California’s Central Coast talking about poetry, art, Zen and God. Continue reading »

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Middle March

Posted: March 15th, 2010
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asphalt and concrete beaten by winter broken and cracked drive across wisconsin on the first day of spring

trees without leaves ground without grass sweeping hills, dormant dairy farms and warm wind

ridges and gullies corn fields and tree stands woodlots and knolls an old world anew a season survived

snow in the shady places the lady faces west and up her eyes and her lips smothered in sun

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“Smack against my ear”

Posted: September 19th, 2009
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There is a wonderful poem about Levon Helm in this week’s New Yorker.

And if, unfortunately, you don’t know who Levon Helm is, I suggest you watch these two videos:

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I'm a writer and Web communications practitioner with a bias toward conservation issues--particularly regarding public lands and waters.

I grew up in Stillwater, MN and have primarily lived in St. Paul and the surrounding area for the past 10 years. The outdoors are a big part of my life, as are music, film, art, and my lovely wife and dog. More...

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Esker - Volume 2 - Nowhere Else But HereI have published two volumes of a chapbook titled "Esker." The most recent volume, "Nowhere Else But Here," was released in January 2010. It features writings from every day of June 2009 in an old Japanese form called haibun.

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