Of Flowers and Poems shown at the left           (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4)) Also available as .pdf download (62 K)

Flowers are to the background green of meadow and forest what a poem is to the constant chatter of sounds which surrounds us. How strikingly beautiful they are, these centers where essences converge.

Metaphor shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))   Also available as .pdf download (42 K)

Metaphor? A movement of resonance perhaps, a rhyming not of sounds or words, but ot meaning. Do you not know this light and quick movement of energy as two separate thoughts touch wings and fly off into the distance together?

The Little Clavier shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))   Also available as .pdf download (88 K)

Each poem is a miniature makeshift piano;   they're all tuned slightly differently, a bit beat up, perhaps, with a few misplaced, broken strings,...

Common Form shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))   Also available as .pdf download (76 K)

On the necessity of Common Form ...Ah, when the rocks are constant, how free we are to marvel at the many moods and changes of the:—common, mountain stream.

Thought the Trickster shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))   Also available as .pdf download (68 K)

Thought the Trickster ...Observe, how easily thought tricks the mind, and we mistake the poverty of arbitrary order for the richness of natural, organic, flow.

NEW Squirrel Tree shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))   Also available as .pdf download (68 K)

The Crow asked the Squirrel, "Can Computers think?" And the Squirrel said,—      "Just as airplanes can fly!"

Contrasts shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))   Also available as .pdf download (68 K)

Seen from the perspective of the Whole, war is always but the left hand of humanity fighting against the right. // Seen from the perspective of Compassion, ...

Against Sturm und Drang shown at the left           (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))           Also available as .pdf download (12 k)

...A truce has been called. Waves write signs in the white sand. The thrushes have arrived and at may moment may speak to the clear northern skies.

The Rose-colored Glasses shown at the left           (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))           Also available as .pdf download (64 k)

Let me remind myself here: Do not confuse— density for intensity, randomness for the unexpected, complicatedness for complexity, ...

The Waste of Beauty . . . ? shown at the left           (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))           Also available as .pdf download (64 k)

You know you're doing good work when even the waste paper looks too beautiful to throw away.

Tree of Wisdom shown at the left           (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))           Also available as .pdf download (68 k)

If Religion and Metaphysics are to mean anything, they should help us age not merely as an ever-larger and more burdensome collection of broken parts, but rather with the slowly increasing wisdom of a tree which holds the complexity of the centuries within ever-clearer, simpler and more beautiful structures.

Balance in Flow- ing Movement shown at the left           (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))           Also available as .pdf download (72 k)

Art is balance in flowing movement demonstrated. At the same time, Art is about balance in the metaphysical sense— ...

Granite Sky shown at the left           (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))           Also available as .pdf download (96 K)

The pass is clearly in view, but the way— how impossibly confused.

On the Way shown at the left           (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4)) Also available as .pdf download (54 k)

On the way, what was once a gift of Chance sometimes becomes Necessity's next step into the unknown.

The Shut Door shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))        Also available as .pdf download (52 K)

Questions open the door to the unknown; tests shut it.

Fence of Learning shown at the left           (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))           Also available as .pdf download (52 K)

Tests only demonstrate the failure of the one who tests.

Special Delivery shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))        Also available as .pdf download (60 K)

Every day, when I go out to get the mail, I feel a secret desire to find a letter which will change my life. // It's time I wrote that letter myself.

Creative Tradition shown at the left           (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4)) Also available as .pdf download (84 K)

In Art as well as Nature, there is a necessary complemen- tarity between the conservative tradition which embodies and safeguards the knowledge of the past and the revolutionary insight which reveals the new.

Little Blue shown at the left           (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (75 K)

Of Bullets and Butterflies The thought of some thinkers moves like a bullet, with the crisp crack of logic's trajectory, a high-powered line cutting straight through the clear air;...

Redbud shown at the left           (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (65 K)

Talent? Everyone appreciates the wildflower's showy brilliance, but few care to follow the slow, steady ripening of the seed.

Aphorisms shown at the left           (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4)) Also available as .pdf download (60 K)

Aphorisms?  The place where Logic follows the markings on Poetry 's flower to meet in the embrace of new meaning.

The Mulberry Fence shown at the left           (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))           Also available as .pdf download (42 K)

Concert Halls? The place where old bodies are burned; Museums? Where they store the ash. Somebody tell me, on what side of the fence lies Paradise?

Circle/Square shown at the left           (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))           Also available as .pdf download (60 K)

Bringing the Circle into the House of the Square: Master the complex to teach the simple; Teach the simple to understand the complex.

Timberline (1) and (2) shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4) ) Also available as .pdf download (48 K)

: the point at which the alpine forest gradually gives way to snow and cold, a tree grows about as fast as water wears down a rock, and a year's growth is measured by the width of a whisper.

Knowing shown at the left         (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))          Also available as .pdf download (84 K)

Summer mountain, magic meadow, the mysterious weave of flowers and grasses, and weeds— the hard question of what is native to this place, and what is not...

Leaves shown at the left         (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (114 K)

Perhaps leaves fall simply to carry away all that we thought we needed to say. And perhaps trees purify themselves each year, knowing that there is no thought so large that it cannot be written on the smooth, plain surface of but a single leaf.

New Music, New Poetry shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))   Also available as .pdf download (102 K)

In both music and poetry, what is important is not so much what we think of as style or aesthetics, but rather the quality of energy which manifests in a piece as we bring it to life in performance....

Centers shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))   Also available as .pdf download (116 K)

What we think of as tonality in music is perhaps nothing more than a confused concept about how sounds are centered in space...

On Paths shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (62 K)

Every well-made path was once only a possibility. Because it is well-made, daily use only makes it more beautiful.

On the Wayside shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))        Also available as .pdf download (68 K)

What's a weed but the unwanted noise of another man's music...

Making the Image Whole shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))      Also available as .pdf download (94 K)

...Tragically, children who are for whatever reason denied this primary relationship with things natural can only with great difficulty re-create pictures or sounds in this way. Theirs has become in part a 2nd-hand world of ghost images projected on the proverbial walls of a high-tech cave.

Freedom Spring            shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4)) Also available as .pdf download (66 K)

The spring gives freely    of its water, but only in freedom   can we drink.

Three Miniatures—   shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4)) Also available as .pdf download (96 K)

In limit, there is freedom; in freedom, there is limit. Even the wildest of rivers creates itself the boundaries of the bed that order its flow.

Watercourse Way  shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))     Also available as .pdf download (50 K)

Balance in Art follows the natural movements of water and weather. Fast mountain streams give way to the slow curves of lowland rivers and the broad expanse of the sea; Dark cold rains are followed by bright skies and the warming sun. Balance is never either / or, but rather the course which runs in between. ...

River Run  shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))     Also available as .pdf download (72 K)

Form emerges out of movement; it is the outward envelope of the rhythmic pulse of life. The river creates itself the boundaries of the bed that order and give structure to its flow.

1000 Diamond Spring  shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (62 K)

Love is like living water:—where it is there in abundance, life flourishes.

NEW House of Poetry shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (62 K)

Has the eternally feminine deserted the house of poetry/  ...

WARNING!  shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (81 K)

We shape the world and the world shapes us. The most insidious of all degradations is the loss of something vitally important for which we do not yet have a name.

Change shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))        Also available as .pdf download (63 K)

Change is the second most difficult thing, understanding, the first.

Loss shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))   Also available as .pdf download (54 K)

The most insidious of all degradations is the loss of something vitally important for which we do not yet have a name.

Retronyms? shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))   Also available as .pdf download (101 K)

Retronyms? With every step we take away from the wisdom of Nature's way, the more difficult it becomes to clearly see what we have lost or left behind. Acoustic guitar, organic tomato, and— as a possible future, n a t u r a l human being...

KEEP OFF! shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))   Also available as .pdf download (80 K)

The simplest and most powerful of all possible tests is the test of doing without.

Deficit Wasting? shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (60 K)

Deficits? All agree that spending more than we earn is bad. Why then allow wasting more than we clean up? Who shall deal with the debt of alien artifacts we leave behind?

ZERO WASTE! shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (60 K)

Zero pollution;100% recycling; Zero war. Begin with the work of cleaning up the thought which says it's not necessary; then the one which says it's not possible.

DAM! shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (96 K)

50 years ago, trout and salmon still swam the entire length of the Rhine, from North Sea to the Alps; The last were seen in 1958. 30,000,000 people depend on this same water ...

Encircling Life shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (60 K)

To protect the Beautiful, study the Ugly.

Flat-tire Model of Reality shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (60 K)

20 miles out, 20 miles back. Got a flat; That's a fact. Hard as nails, Life's like that. Gotta act—now; That's a fact! 20 miles out, 20 miles back. Got a flat; That's a fact.    Excuses, excuses— Why can't I live like that?

NEW End Of Tunnel shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (64 K)

Even if its waste emissions were reduced to zero today, the automobile would remain one of the most insidiously destructive inventions of all time. Destructive, because it breaks apart our ...

O.B.O. shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (56 K)

More with Less (Or Best Offer) Control is the way of less and less harmony with more and more effort; Limit is way of of more—more harmony, more order, and more creativity, with less and less effort. ...

PATEHTIC FALLACY? shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (64 K)

PATHETIC FALLACY? : when a machine is given the attributes of life, :or worse—when a living being is given the attributes of a machine.

Squirrel, relaxing shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (52 K)

Humans are the only beings in Nature who are constantly preoccupied with what they are not.

Love on Ice shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (68 K)

The Chainsaw said to the Jackhammer, "Who's making all the noise around here? The Electric Bass or the Drummer? // Tolerance for noise? They say, a frog in a pot of water, if up turn up the juice very gradually, will let itself be boiled.

4 Easy Steps shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))   Also available as .pdf download (77 K)

4 Easy Steps  Four easy steps to a radically new popular music: (1) Don't play 4/4; (2) Don't say 'love'; (3) Don't say 'baby'; (4) Pull out the plug.

Sharp Ideas! shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))   Also available as .pdf download (64 K)

Keep your knives sharp! Laboring with a dull knife's edge is like having to think hard with bad ideas.

The 3 Chaoses shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))   Also available as .pdf download (84 K)

The Three Chaoses : Generative chaos is the rich polyphony of simultaneous orders of movement, characteristic of especially both living sound and water;  ...

Movement shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))   Also available as .pdf download (84 K)

Information is like the web of links in a wire fence; Meaning is like the cascade of waves on a mountain stream.

Palimpsest shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))   Also available as .pdf download (80 K)

Palimpsest When writing new compositions, one upon the other, // one prays that they might with time / get better.

The Mossy Spring shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))         Also available as .pdf download (57 K)

Information is the surface of the ocean; Meaning is its depth.

The New Tenebrism shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))         Also available as .pdf download (60 K)

In Poetry and Photography, the title or frame creates a background shadow of knowledge of things implied, but left unsaid or unseen; // Out of this background emerge dramatically contrasted centers of light and focus.

Sedge seeds on ice shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))         Also available as .pdf download (60 K)

Whether or not the seeds of new meaning set root and flourish depends not so much on any form of promotion or publicity, but rather on their strength of resonance with our spiritual need for clarity and truth.

Computers Up shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))   Also available as .pdf download (72 K)

A two-part meditation on both the bright and the dark sides of computers and computer networks —to transcend arbitrary borders or limitations of any kind, thereby bringing people and meaning together in new, unexpected and creative ways;

Computers Down shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))   Also available as .pdf download (84 K)

—to create vast invisible networks for evermore centralized runaway economies, which are thereby protected from the destructive human and environmental consequences of their own internal contradictions; ...

Money shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))            Also available as .pdf download (70 K)

Money is a movement which always seems to be going in the wrong direction.

Mistakes shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))            Also available as .pdf download (56 K)

A mistake is a mistake repeated. Even the best of players can make a habit of practicing—sometimes for years— the wrong moves.

OATS! shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))            Also available as .pdf download (64 K)

Symbols refer to meaning like currency to value:— only in a highly abstract and intellectual way. // The danger with such abstraction is that it is want to wander off on its own, losing its basis in actual fact.

Music / Poetry shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))            Also available as .pdf download (12 K)

The only thing that's worse than the fragmentation of music and poetry is when we —in fragmentation— try to unite them.

The Sprinkler shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))            Also available as .pdf download (78 K)

On the difference between metaphorical and literal mind For the metaphorical mind, what others perceive as isolated facts are but unrealised opportunities in the dance of relationship. For the literal mind, the dance has stopped; with a laser-like beam, it concentrates on the outward features of things:—shards, numbers, fragments of flux. ...

Wayside Fractals shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))            Also available as .pdf download (80 K)

On the difference between limit and control Control imposes order from without by projecting the predetermined thought, conditioned by the past, of what should happen. The need to control invariably increases as the disorderly, unexpected, side-effects of past efforts accumulate, which results in ever-greater unnecessary difficulties or complicatedness; ...

The Road Ahead shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))            Also available as .pdf download (79 k)

All passengers in a car running on a full tank of fundamentalist religion, we're tied up with freedom and democracy in back. Money's in the driver's seat, with nation states spinning with a vengeance, one against the other, for wheels. Hey, somebody just yelled, "Get out at the next right!"

Economy of Art shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))            Also available as .pdf download (52 K)

The economy of Art? You know that your composition has achieved a certain integrity not just when there is nothing left to take away, but also when changing but a single part means that you must of necessity go back and retune the whole.

New Possibilites shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))            Also available as .pdf download (68 K)

There are inventions which impose structure on the mind, forcing us to think as we might walk with one foot tied behind the back, in unnatural ways; And there are inventions which are already implicit in the workings of the mind at its best, letting us create with all the ease of freely flowing water. The humble hyperlink,  ....

Cotton Grass shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))            Also available as .pdf download (75 k)

The cheap slogans of politics and commerce are like aggressive alien weeds, overrunning the common ground of language with a kind of false—or irre-poetry;

The Flower Cluster shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))            Also available as .pdf download (59 k)

Nothing fades faster than an Art that has descended to the level of being no more than its own commercial. See the flower cluster that advertises itself with showy, yet infertile blooms along its periphery. No need to remind it that real nectar must be offered at its center to attract for long

Big Blue shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))            Also available as .pdf download  (76 K)

Misconceptions self-perpetuate because, when I'm wrong, what is right will seem wrong to me; // Corruption self-perpetuates because I become dependent on its perks and privileges. ...

Solo Voce shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))            Also available as .pdf download (52 K)

The question of which musical body we consider central or primary—that of the large orchestra or individual soloist— is related to the similar question in literature of which form is seen as most important, the full-length novel or the short poem...

New Music shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))            Also available as .pdf download (66 K)

When I play true, even though I may make mistakes, all the many voices move as one, and even the softest of sounds can be heard; When I play false, though I do not drop a note, the different voices begin to contradict and fight against each other, until even the loudest of sounds can be heard by no one.

Simplicity Spring shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))            Also available as .pdf download (64 K)

Where the climax of complexity comes we can never know for sure, but natural movement always begins and ends with simplicity. Draw a circle which is not surrounded by emptiness; Speak a word which does not emerge from and return to   --  nothing at all.

The Bell shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))            Also available as .pdf download (52 K)

The point at the center of a cross, where wet and cold meets warm and dry, and flowing waters and cultures divide. // North side and South side, how could I ever choose? Swaying back and forth, I am the bell that rings out on all sides.

Oak Leaves shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))            Also available as .pdf download (40 K)

Oak leaves: white, black, red to scarlet and bur—       smooth lobes       to prickly bristles       and back, bringing out the myriad accents and turns of a phrase.

Border Crossing shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))            Also available as .pdf download (56 K)

Border Crossing Not a word penetrated the thick glass boundary. Changing money, all I had to do was --    show the bills.

For a Friend and a Crow shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))            Also available as .pdf download (52 K)

Mid-morning, sitting in new snow with an old friend; // an eagle flies by with a crow on its tail. Above, below -- always with two begins the movement of our world.

Natural Limit shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))            Also available as .pdf download (60 K)

A sound, natural limit in any system is when there is no conflict or contradiction between what does and what does not— happen.

Keys shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))            Also available as .pdf download (40 K)

The fewer keys I own, the freer I am.

Place shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))            Also available as .pdf download (68K)

When we are young and naturally wish to wander the ways of the world, it's good to think ahead, not just about what's further down the road, but to find a harmony—a fit, between the center of one's being, and the center—the place—one comes to call home.

Limit Falls shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))            Also available as .pdf download (52 K)

Powerful expression in the Arts is channeled by invisible, yet equally powerful, natural limits. The mystery of limit is that we never see it, and yet it guides every step of Creativity's dance....

Without Movement shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (52 K)

A world without light or without sound is thinkable, but not a world   without movement.

Way of Violence shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (74 K)

Violence is like a pool of poison water threatening the river of life. Gazing out over the whole, one sees that answering violence with violence never stops the corruption of the water, but rather becomes a part of the pollution itself; ...

One Path shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (60 K)

On Sayings in Prose and other Metaphysical Miniatures The problem is to bring thought into its proper relationship with the natural world by surrounding it with an abundance of space and quietude.—the song of the woodthrush is always followed by silence. Who is to say which is more important, the song or the quiet interval before and afte? ...

12 Concepts shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (40 K)

Understanding the Shape of Change: 12 primary concepts in the description and generation of movement in music, poetry and dance

Difference shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (33 0k)

Once there is difference, there is complementarity. Once there is complementarity, there is movement. Art happens in the balance thereby created.

Publishing the Future shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (142 k)

Safeguard a rich diversity and complexity of content by demanding an openness and simplicity of structure

Complicatedness shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (60 0k)

Complicatedness, or unnecessary difficulty, is frequently the result of outmoded, inappropriate ways of thinking..  ...

A Die Falls shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (128 K)

A Die Falls: A fractal symmetry poem about Chance and Necessity

Pianoforte shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))         Also available as .pdf download (52 K)

Pianoforte ...these dark spaces behind the brilliance of Mozart's / smile, an un- known place where the birds go in winter, flying through endless skies, // sure wings, silent breath.

Cornice flowforms shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))         Also available as .pdf download (52 K)

With enough time, simplicity always unfolds—without limit— into natural complexity. Sustain a single vowel sound for the duration of an entire breath, and you will become aware of the rich weave of its overtones; Walk the smooth white surfaces of high mountain spring snow, and you will discover an infinity of living textures beyond all compare.

Learning Spring shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))   Also available as .pdf download (68 K)

We come into proper relationship with the infinite complexity of the natural world around us only when we can describe its richness in words so simple that even a child can understand.

Sometimes shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))   Also available as .pdf download (67 K)

Sometimes a poem wanders about the world in search of its proper place and hour; To learn it lovingly by heart is to walk with it; To offer it freely to another is perhaps to bring it home.

NEW Line and Curve shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4)) Also available as .pdf download (70 K)

Where curve embraces straight line, there, the balance of complementarity begins. Break the flow, and a culture becomes onesided, some might say— dangerously so.

Love and Place shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4)) Also available as .pdf download (60 K)

In the present era, we abandon each other at the drop of a hat because, both individually and collectively, we deserted long ago the very earth upon which we stand. Without a soil made rich by generations of care, even the most heartfelt feelings can find no place to root and call home.

The Bindweed and the Reedgrass shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4)) Also available as .pdf download (60 K)

Once complementarity is lost, ...

Mirrors Made of Sound shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))     Also available as .pdf download (45k)

Mirrors made of sound? When strings at rest reflect in sympathetic resonance the movements of other sounds we hear the beginnings of Love and Compassion in the physical world.

BASIC BALLOT shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (36 K)

BASIC BALLOT: CHECK ONE: (1) Right; (2) Left; (3) No viable alternative    Vote YES for NO!

Diabolus in politica shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       }Also available as .pdf download (48 K)

In Politics, Religion is the Devil! And Money?— the fuel that fires the horrors of Hell.

Crows of Truth shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       }Also available as .pdf download (64 K)

Gone is the era of an honest man riding a horse to congress. Enter the era of politicians with makeup and a staff of burger-with-fries linguists to compose their historic addresses. ....

Simplicity shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (91 K)

In Politics, the most radical idea is simplicity; In Art, the most difficult idea is simplicity; In Science, the most necessary idea is simplicity; In Religion, the most mysterious, arduous, complex idea, is simplicity.

NH3/WITHOUT shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (95 K)

The simplest and most powerful of all possible tests is the test of doing without.

ROLLER! shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (50 K)

The simplest and most powerful of all possible freedoms is the freedom to stop doing, regardless of the short-term difficulties thus encountered, that which is inherently contradictory or wrong.

No Edge Lines! shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (52 K)

No Edge Lines and the Runaway Economy A free economy is a strictly limited one. Even the busiest of thoroughfares still retains a thin white line, protecting the rights of those of us who prefer to:— walk.

Rhythm of Change shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (49 K)

Any technological change is most likely as questionable as it is disruptive if it happens faster than the disturbed vacant lot next door can heal itself.

Weeds! shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (54 k)

A weed is a species of movement which feeds on chaos and roots in imbalance.

Three Good Things shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (64 k)

Work hard, need little, waste less.

The Three Steps shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (76 k)

How complicated are the ways we wander when Truth is lost; How arbitrary the deeds, needless the wars, how without meaning— the waste.

NEW The Three Tires shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (76 k)

Reading the Bible or the Gita or Koran only gives you the idea of religion; recycling old tires back into fertile earth gives you the actual fact. // Image:—the old, outmoded beliefs of the past make way for the spiritual imperatives of the new.

Butterfly Proposal shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (30 k)

Chance proposes; Intelligence disposes. No one can predict which flower the butterfly will pass by next.

The Water Fountain shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (60 k)

On the difference between living Intelligence and mechanical Intellect The movements of intelligence in Nature resonate together like the circular waves of water droplets merging on the surface of quiet water.  ...

Sunflower Poem shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (30 k)

Nature knows no conflict, no contradiction, no waste. The religious or spiritual life begins therefore not with any dogma or belief, but rather with the deeply held intention to live a life without conflict, contradiction, or waste.

Science; Religion; Art shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4)) Also available as .pdf download (42 K)

The essence of Science is not so much proof, but rather the willingness to drop a theory or a particular way of looking at the world if it appears to be contradicted by fact; ...

Sow Thistle shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))   Also available as .pdf download (40k)

Imagine Nature reduced to place filled with straight, dry, brittle stems covered from root to crown with thorns. That is what we ourselves become when we lose the complemen- tarity of masculine and feminine principles.

Primal Confusion shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))   Also available as .pdf download (80 K)

Without a shared sense of natural limit with regard to the genders, there is a great danger that mere competition between the sexes may take the place of the complemen- tarity of masculine and feminine principles....

Security shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (74 K)

On the Illusion of Seeking Security in Isolation Stealth? Secrecy? Security? For every weapon, there is a counter-weapon; for every defense, a counter-measure;...

Square of False Rationality shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (80 K)

Inside the Square, discussion is neat and orderly. One could say, clean almost. That is because Truth and a whole angry horde of assumption-threatening details are kept at bay, far beyond the walls of the Square. ...

War Games shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))       Also available as .pdf download (40 K)

Every general will tell you very convincingly that he needs more of something: more men, more guns, more, more accurate missiles. He never tells you what he needs most, however, which is more war.

Wall Flag shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))   Also available as .pdf download (102 K)

Resurrection of the 'Ugly American' : utterly incapable of seeing the world from another's point of view, whether the other be a foreigner, a woman, a person of color, or simply a fellow member of Earth's creatura (a tree, a river, a mountain);...

Path of Peace shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))   Also available as .pdf download (64 K)

Security?—without love of Earth, can there ever be security?; Defense?, without needing little and wasting less, can there ever be defense?;

Performer shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))   Also available as .pdf download (64 K)

...Dare to be simple. Walk the land. Tie your fiddle to your back. Learn to play the song of each and every bird.  ...x

On Poetry shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4)) Also available as .pdf download (65 K)

If you want to be a poet, call yourself a farmer; If you want to be a farmer, call yourself a religious man or woman; If you want to be a person of religion, call yourself a teacher. The first student is always yourself.

Mountain Path shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))     Also available as .pdf download (62 K)

Mountain Path As two learn to walk together as one, one of their most prinmal of fears is that they might somehow, by some accident, be separated, perhaps irreversibly. That is why Love seeks to protect every step Freedom makes.

That Sound!— shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))     Also available as .pdf download (102 K)

Art? Beauty? Perhaps, that which is fitting in every way, in all directions at once. Music? On the way to your next performance, if you wish to know what—beyond the walls of the concert hall— the Earth suffers every day because of our indifference, let your route follow the side of a busy, noisy road...

Fern shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))     Also available as .pdf download (76 K)

Life-like mechanical simulations of outward patterns of movement do not mean that we have necessarily understood or discovered the inner workings of the generation of organic form.  ...

Listening shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))     Also available as .pdf download (60 K)

Listening is never 2nd-hand. Creative tradition never repeats. The works of the past can only be discovered afresh by ears made strong by the challenge, and attuned to the wonder, of the new and unknown.

Melody shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))     Also available as .pdf download (54 K)

There are those artisits who transform the string of precious stones which is melody into mere black marks on a page; And there are those who transform the black marks on a page into the string of precious stones. —Music is the difference.

Grain of Space shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))     Also available as .pdf download (59 K)

Time folds into Space like a thread wound into a skein; Ah --the one at of time folds into and becomes the all at once, and all differences become co-present. Listen to the separate notes of a Melody wind round themselves to become Harmony as a piano's sustaining pedal is depressed. That's the sound of Time becoming a quality of Space!

The Water Glass shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))     Also available as .pdf download (63 k)

In the Arts, we may easily be misled by a work's surface appearance, and therefore only belatedly awaken to its deeper metaphysical or spiritual source. It's like the water of any large city: at first it may seem perfectly clear, re- freshing. But after a while we may come to sense the drop of poison added to keep us from getting sick.

Water Drops shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))         Also available as .pdf download (63 k)

We shape the world and the world shapes us. The more spiritual and in harmony with the natural world a culture becomes, the fewer and fewer words will be needed to say ever-more important things.

First Light! shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))        Also available as .pdf download (68 K)

Do you need a Priest to stand between you and the voice of gods?:—Go to the mountains and find out. Do you need a Banker to stand between you and infinite wealth?:—Go to the mountains and find out. Do you need a Politician to stand between you and your freedom?:—Go, go to the mountains and find out.

Interwoven Simplicity/Complexity shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))         Also available as .pdf download (80 k)

(2) Complicatedness is difficulty which serves no purpose and is therefore without reason or meaning; it is difficulty which is unnecessary. Remarkably, in this sense, complicatedness in Nature does not exist.

Two Paths shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))        Also available as .pdf download (56 K)

Two paths:—one returns, one does not. And I still don't know, which one —leads home.

No Frame, No Thought shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))     Also available as .pdf download (119 K)

In Science, we may put frames potentially in the wrong place, and therefore ask the wrong questions; In Art, we may create potentially inappropriate or 'false' frames, that is, ones which tacitly tell us that there is something important inside while in actuality this is not the case...

Poetry of Images shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))     Also available as .pdf download (68 K)

The poetry of images evokes the text without the words;  ...

Listening . . . shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))     Also available as .pdf download (72 K)

Reading—hours at a time narrows the mind to the stuffy confines of a room without windows; Listening—in contrast, whether in or out-of-doors, is freer, more alive; Listening allows the eyes to roam freely about, no longer straining in a small, constricted field. Listening allows for great space. And a polyphony of simultaneous, complementary movements.  ...

3 Guiding Lights shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))     Also available as .pdf download (68 K)

Determination, Diligence, Devotion—three guiding lights in the constellation of the Arts. ...

No Waste shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))        Also available as .pdf download (78 K)

Nature knows no conflict, no contradiction, no waste. It is possible to say, therefore, that the religious life begins not with any dogma or belief, but rather with the deeply held intention to live a life without conflict, contradiction, or waste.

Art of Miniature shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))        Also available as .pdf download (68 K)

... Poetry, when we come to see its essence as the energy of insight revealed in the imagery of the singing and speaking voice, stands at the very center of this endeavor like a mountain which is both supremely physical in its presence, but also spiritual, ...

NEW Simple Desires shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))        Also available as .pdf download (64 K)

I want to live my life like a bell, not large, but small, resonant, whole—a bell that rings out into the open air from all it sides; // I want live like a frog, hungry for love, singing the moment it digs out of the ...

NEW ZERO shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))        Also available as .pdf download (64 K)

Zero, such a shy performer, at first hiding behind the no's "n", you step out onto the clear, open page;                     0, inside your tight boundaries lies amazing space,

NEW NOISE OF THE WORLD shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))        Also available as .pdf download (64 K)

THE NOISE OF THE WORLD Noise makes both body and mind tense; When tension is constant, it can make us violent . . .

(Coda) The Room of Mind shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))           Also available as .pdf download (34 K)

. . . Before I know it, forgetting that poems are something like paths we make in walking, I'll mistake again the dark little closet where I've hidden all the unpaid bills of the past for the door which leads outside.

Dialogue shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4)) Also available as .pdf download (65 K)

Dialogue is like a journey made together on foot through unknown terrain. Where we do not move as one, we simply stop and start over again. ...

Picture/Poem Poster shown at the left (prints 81/2 x 11" (A4))          Also available as .pdf download (88 K)

In every picture, there's a poem; In every poem, a picture.

* Print on 8 1/2 x 11 (A4) cardstock or glossy inkjet photo paper. To enlarge,
photocopy on 11 x 17" (A3) heavy cardstock.x

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