Methods of Prayer
Sometimes it is best when you sit
and speak nothing, pray nothing, but be still.
Yet such actions contradict much
you have absorbed about prayer, against your will.
You learned the yes, Jesus
Stanley Kubrick: Mystic
I first watched Stanley Kubrick’s uncanny The Shining (1980) where I watched all
the great 80s horror movies, from Poultergeist to The Evil Dead —in the dark,
sacred confines of my best
Survival Accents
Seasons in our state are covert, though
certain trees shed. We’d see a difference in color
on leaves, and those would be the ones to drop.
One Halloween we chose to let
Precipice Lake
When my water bottle rolled off
the slab and into the lake, I hesitated
to snatch it out,
and in that moment the breeze took it
silently away from shore,
sailing over the
LSD and the Baptisms of Tahquitz Canyon
Fifty years ago Lonnie Frisbee took LSD and wandered into Tahquitz Canyon naked.
He returned a born-again Christian. While in the canyon, Lonnie had a vision of
hundreds of thousands of people being