stone

long ago
I scaled a boulder 
the glacier left behind – 
my knee still bleeds 
against the granite edge of time 


~Ribbons 10:2, spring/summer 2014 

a stone woman

gives birth to a child

in the night

my book falls open

to the words, I need . . .

~NeverEnding Story: One Man’s Maple Moon, 8/7/14

(The quotation in the second tanka is from Mountains and Rivers Sutra by Japanese Soto Zen Master Dogen Kigen, 1200–1253)