6:45am, in a dark and empty square, my yesterday started with a stranger, Frank. 3 hours into the mountains, an ultra-specialized clinic for cell harvesting was waiting. There were two snow storms. A hail storm. We got lost 5 times. I announced I knew his secret: he was driving in to the woods to kidnap …

…and fear. let fear not be your beast or ghost, your roadmap or process. so often we think quenching or dampening the fear is the solution. that’s not bravery: that’s slavery. an action taken solely to quiet a fear leads, inevitably, to more fear, more pain, more problems. but the one based on faith, on radical …

this is me, with eyes skyward locked to low stars chirping above the atlantic night full moon flirting with earth’s far side pale ocean walking and walking and walking beyond the reaches of the sheltered bay and me watching wading, floating the water wild with swimming fire

I see you on Broadway and Broome Street In a black coat walking To the beat of falling February snow I see our hands together, a few steps up And into the Soho Grand Our eternity screaming yes yes from an 8th floor room I feel myself asleep across you Plane flying home My future …

the calm drawl of green mile is on again. i do this at night. a movie plays while i eat some cookies from the bakery down the street. before i eat them, i soak them in half and half. it’s a childish ritual that i never did when i was a child. tonight it’s raining. …