Home is the place where the heart first learned to differentiate the real from the unreal and the known from what might never be encountered. BY MAHIN ZIA
Tag: Travel
Deep Down Things
True presence demands attention beyond the self, and a reckoning with the vastness of the other lives that shape our world. BY DEREK FURR
W.S. Merwin – Rain Travel
The influence of Buddhist thought is evident in much of W.S. Merwin’s writing.
At Home in the [Burning] World – Haibun by Dane Cervine
An excerpt from Dane Cervine's new book of haibun - a coupling of prose and haiku - that catalogues journeys of pilgrimage.
Ice Over
Change drives our lives forward; our emotions fuel the trip. BY JULIA ROBINSON SHIMIZU
Ellen Girardeau Kempler – Jet Lag
Ellen Girarardeau Kempler's "Jet Lag" places us in the rugged Arizona desert and takes us back into the furthest expanses of geologic time.
Quincy Gray McMichael – After Portugal
In the vivid "After Portugal", the simple act of doing a load of laundry after returning home from time abroad brings back moonlit memories
Ziyong Chengru – Ten Verses
Chinese Nun Ziyong Chengru on the pain of parting and how to draw solace from the cyclical nature of time and landscape.
Guadalupe Salgado Partida – Nearing Heaven
Guadalupe Salgado Partida, with her poem "Nearing Heaven", tilts our eyes skyward, just as the eyes of the poem's narrator when she asks her father about God.
Lily Jarman-Reisch – Camino Real
In Camino Real, Lily Jarman-Reisch details a road trip in the exhausted American West, from the Pacific Coast.