MUSIC WEEK By D.B. Atkins ►TREADING WATER VS. SWIMMING The songwriting explosion of Stevie Wonder’s late adolescence and early adulthood gave us our finest modern pop standards, and his ability […]

Blue cranes among kudu,
the sand grouse captured […]

Like a boy on his first flight
asking to see the cockpit […]

The way some people shape themselves for other
people, like water shapes itself for any vessel […]

Melting glacier about to calve. Mercy.
Darwinian overflow valve, mercy. […]

So upright we became, so fast, fearing a brisk damnation.
Crawling on all fours, fleeing such picaresque damnation. […]

Opened, sprinkled, twirl of seeds on a’a or pahoehoe.
Breaking news: nature’s prayer beads on a’a or pahoehoe. […]

When humans watch the sky for holes, then kiss
all plants goodbye and suck down freeze-dried food […]

Sometimes failure is just failure and not
injustice. Nothing succeeds like success. […]