Counting Ten

The sand and the sea the mud and the dark and the green

the sticky stuff on the surf the early rains and later rains

The mud the mud the green the sand the dark

You will be a blessing as great as the dark as the sea the sand the green

the flie

-- the Stars

Counting Nine

Don’t sweet talk me draw me into the deep carry me in your pocket sling me like a satchel over your shoulder the truth a dark candle the candle at the hearth with all its shadows --

Reflected dark dark dark -- light.

-- The moon

Counting Eight

I’m your Jewish grandma I’m a middle aged gay man I’m a gangster from Detroit I’m someone’s kid I’m a breast I’m your daddy I’m a footnote on somebody’s life.

-- Night and day

Counting Seven

Counting Seven


What is that flowing through you?
It’s G*d

Your inheritance


-- the Rivers




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Counting Six

Counting Six

So you had some stuff happen

When you were a kid

Keep coming here

You’ll get your soul back

-- the Waters

Counting Five

Counting Five

Savaging the future

Against a past you cannot forget

This one makes pictures into words

We are all haunted

-- the Fields

Counting Four

Counting Four

On the way to the mountain
Lean and new
Nothing left to resist
Become something


-- The Wilderness

Counting Six

Counting Six

So you had some stuff happen

When you were a kid

Keep coming here

You’ll get your soul back

-- the Waters

Counting Three

Counting Three

Stuff or substance
Patience and desire
Fire your chef
Feed yourself


-- Your Hunger

Counting Two

Counting Two

Without a witness
The story forgotten
A tombstone with a name
Walk through the yard

When you take the children
Waiting for rain
A late summer shower
The story buried there

Morning

-- the Earth

Counting 49

Here is your wisdom, nicely packaged it’s now in book form first it came as thunder and lightning but some time into the future after you are done with the telling you will begin the writing then it will be a book then it will return to lightning in digital form and you will return to telling because the words are on the wind in the rain maybe once in a while you’ll project them on a wall or write them into a journal or sing them to remind you that the word has shape and also that the word does not have shape it has sound. The return to thunder.

-- the Master Blaster

Day 49

The Flame is saying, "I am YHVH your God, who brought you out of Mitzrayim, out of the house of bondage." (Exodus 20:2)

Counting 48

It’s a test, all of it, you will be tested daily. Today a test, tomorrow a test, each day a quiz and if you fail it today you can make it tomorrow. Go home and take tomorrow fresh. Do-over, every day new. That’s not a blessing?

-- the Smart Guy

Counting 48

The question mark associated with the mysterium: what to do, and the vulnerability of being a human being alive but fearful of the drift downward. Get Up and On With It.

-- the Sage

Day 48

The sage is saying, "I hate quotation.  Tell me what you know."  (The Concorder Rebbe)

Counting 47

In a field of postures pray for voice open up your heart-line all that was holy entered through your wounds the last place you expected.

-- the Singer

Day 47

The singer is saying, 

“One thing have I desired: 

to dwell in the house of God all my days, 

to behold the beauty of YHVH, 

to seek amid holiness.” (from Ps. 27:4)