
FACING west, from California’s shores
Heading home to Sausalito on this particular evening from the office in San Francisco brought quite a few thoughts into … Continue reading FACING west, from California’s shores
Heading home to Sausalito on this particular evening from the office in San Francisco brought quite a few thoughts into … Continue reading FACING west, from California’s shores
Not to be outdone by the harvest moons of the previous two nights, Sunday morning 18 September 2016 brought with … Continue reading Give me the Splendid, Silent Sun
“O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done; The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is … Continue reading “O CAPTAIN! My Captain!”
“A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child?. . . .I do not know what it is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven. Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropped, Bearing the owner’s name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose? Or I guess the grass is itself a child. . . .the produced babe of the vegetation. Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic, And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white, Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive them the same. And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves. Tenderly will I use you curling grass, … Continue reading “A Child Said, What Is The Grass?”
How often does one get to think about both Bob Marley and Walt Whitman at the same time? It can … Continue reading A Rocky Road with Leaves of Grass