Preparation "What would it take to set yourself on fire? How long before the act do you plan? Is it necessary to be in some altered state...

HAIL ALL YE, from inside the lions den. All the jokers fakers ogres and fools, my people, you are welcome here, at the end of time. The...

Where my tepee is attached to the world there are many lashings.  My mother lashed me to her back as a baby and there I faced the future....

I am afraid I have, in the past, described an ideal life at the Hermitage, but environmentally destructive land use norms have been...

Thus a baby was born into a family unable to breathe freely, a self-conscious bunch that drew their bloodyline through generations and...

Stop Yesterday here at the Hermitage, all and at once the birds stood still. Little silhouettes on tree branches posed midalight and...

Have you seen my father? I know he is living on the earth somewhere, but I have not been in his presence for hundreds of years. I was...

i cut my finger this morning red blood born into the world a storm of birds crooked their necks toward the sound of the spaces in between...

I. Walking down the sloping paved entry into the trailer park on the outskirts of my hometown, I scanned the rugged terrain to my right....

All through the night the storm raged and your eyes looked blankly through the window at me I let you in "Where are the others, the...

Following Starlet's foray into the Realm of Love, she at once became a disciple of Gautama Buddha, and was said to have become an...

Starlet was born in the woods. This is her subterranean memory, of deep inhalations of rich black dirt, delightful decay, the reachings...

Here at the Hermitage we live just up a small slope from Drain Ditch 789, which once was more enchantingly named the Little Maple River...

Raccoon. Why do you come here in the night wreaking havok on the bird feeder? Where do you come from, wily raccoon who runs quickly to...

The Beginning: The Shape Shifting of Ancestry To arrive here, on this late date, seems ludicrous, and yet, strangely, as it should be. I...

A fairy in the woodland bit my mother one day and simultaneously the trees began to respirate loudly, releasing me with hissing,...