Monthly Archives: September 2025

Just a Glance

Hades never promised me a Eurydice.
Looking backwards, whether succumbing
to doubt, fear, an overwhelming desire,
or simply caught between love and reason,
never cost me the one whose hand I held.

And who hasn't turned around a time or two,
disregarding the angel's explicit command,
to look upon all that we were leaving
for a better land where everyone always
strains their looking forward into the future.

Orpheus lost, arriving from the underworld
with no one holding his hand to keep
him warm at night.  The wife of Lot, nameless, 
lost, a pillar now, a tower warning against
attachment and divine disobedience.  And me?
What dire consequences, when I cling
to a way of life, do I suffer for just a glance?

circles

i sit in the same chair
day after day after day
looking out the same window
watching shadows
rise, stretch, disappear, stretch again, and fade
forgetting what happened yesterday
at the edge of memory

i remember the times
of consistently pushing against
the small circles of special
formed by those caught within
the burdens of their unbridled desires

the pushing in the mad hope 
of creating an opening
for the welcome of all
wore me out
so now i sit and watch
trying not to give offense

it is the delight of the divine
to give the rain and the sun
to come down upon everything
admirably arranged
circles everywhere and nowhere
leaving no shadows