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welcome to 36917 — a delta of the Great River (c) 2026.

Need’s needs

May 28, 2021

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contents ↓
  • in the lee of the moon
  • all poets, without the words
  • south of yes north of no
  • Sate of Is
  • step back
  • pillow hagiography
  • god’s haiku
  • (a) creation tale
  • unpleasant
  • warrens of Now
  • god’s shot
  • sorry, can you repeat that?
  • breadcrumbs
  • god at the car dealership
  • the great river
  • Curiousity & Wonder > Dread
  • inside job
  • Muse’s Market
  • ;! (pending and wonder)
  • deep bow
  • wells of kindness
  • god’s music
  • Rohr’s Rem
  • putting back
  • perch
  • liminal spaces
  • god’s Current in drag (redux)
  • god’s Current in drag
  • wrapped in her Everywhere
  • spiritual cartography
  • gibbous blessing
  • to the From
  • overdue fines
  • Sophia’s Grace
  • everything changed
  • shimmer
  • it’s enough
  • god’s eavesdropping
  • F5
  • benediction
  • morning ralph, morning sam
  • another night’s work
  • today’s rx for stress
  • journey to the Lost Words
  • spiritual rube goldberg machine
  • absolute’s breakwater
  • Desiderata for Dummies (c)
  • sing
  • yield the harvest’s harvest
  • Here begat Now
  • bibles and vedas and kiddish cups (oh my)
  • gawd’s eye view
  • unknot yourself
  • raindrop’s telos
  • strange dance, this
  • music, fuck yeah
  • you are loved
  • the harvest’s harvest
  • county Transimmanence
  • One Path
  • part of that which divides
  • spirit creek
  • here
  • sad
  • you can *never* get there from here
  • grace, gaia, gestalt
  • judgement’s cursive
  • thus did he run
  • adjective-free wednesday
  • nature’s graffiti
  • wearing wednesday
  • what is this fuckery
  • the mind wallpapers the world
  • throat center alchemy
  • collecting waypoints
  • the view from there (fear and anxiety)
  • drinking wind
  • i don’t know
  • i don’t know
  • Need’s Needs
  • Need’s needs
  • soon, almost, here then
  • triggers
  • perfect loose-ed (lucid) dream
  • god’s interstate
  • mood
  • storms and winds and wall-less rooms
  • when
  • meet me at our intersection
  • anxiety - help in drag
  • …who’s there?
  • oak
  • dust, dream and destiny
  • from these to that
  • home heart love
  • spira homage
  • hurry up and wait
  • loves laughter; silence
  • metta meta metta
  • always clean up after your epiphany
  • sleepy samskaras run deep
  • strange vaudeville
  • the problem with you
  • 1024x768
  • closer than you think
  • doesn’t look broken
  • no boundaries (aug 4, 2009)
  • not my space, man
  • pallet, pigment, person, god
  • spirolo
  • thirsting for shadows
  • this is what saddens
  • try walking
  • lilas well
  • between the breaths
  • between the keys
  • GrIndia
  • shift
  • 1977
  • 1985
  • yellow hat (seeds the day)
  • Cal
  • Rich Paulsy is a coward
  • the relative, in drag
  • alphabet soup
  • gimme 3 minutes
  • incommunicado
  • non local
  • the tree of life in rumi’s field neath van goghs skies
  • feeling smothered or overwhelmed?
  • having a rough go of it?
  • the (a)isle of left and right
  • lilac cathedral
  • solid lines of broken glass
  • alone together, into the sun
  • Another 24
  • Check it at the door please
  • deux ex machina
  • just a spoon full of toxins
  • The bloom between
  • holy living rooms (moon gifts)
  • Transcimmanence (the river up or down)
  • please, move Through
  • moving space
  • poet’s night
  • Was
  • The guide (j)
  • Negating the negatives
  • Fauline’s Garden
  • “Fuck me. really?
  • the muse, the god gap, and God
  • all shall be well
  • just a little to the right
  • secret brook
  • 3:17 am (the intersection of unbearable and unsolveable)
  • and god smiled (becoming the mandala)
  • Blender your chaos
  • Glen Gould
  • Impermanence and death, the great creators
  • In a departed’s shadow: by yourself but not alone
  • Mother Mary’s Map
  • The Artist
  • The middle’s edges
  • God’s calligrapher
  • Join us
  • Maybe it’s not that god didn’t answer
  • Maybe your ‘off’ is god’s ‘on’
  • When you feel like you don’t matter (god’s gps)
  • You matter
  • Your always perfect bank of energy
  • You’re exactly where you’re supposed to be
  • Spiritual Bypassing and Course Correction
  • 11/9/2016
  • For the Moment
  • Life is Mandatory
  • Pine
  • Word Bottom (17 submissions)
  • Acceptance, Willingness, Grace
  • Laughing with Buddha, Christ, Neils Bohr, William James, and Ramana Maharishi
  • There Could be Room Two Here
  • Being Right vs Being Present
  • Music, God’s Anaesthetic
  • Suffering’s Gift
  • The Beheld
  • The Greatest Trick in the World
  • Barefooter’s Canon
  • Clothed in the Kosmos
  • Empathy’s Sheet
  • God’s ATM
  • Greater Call
  • Heartbeat in the Rooms
  • Paradox’s Skillfull Gifts
  • Praying for God
  • Strangers in a Strange Hand
  • Who Not to Wear
  • Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Tylenol
  • No start or stop in Surrender
  • Surrendering to Surrender
  • Purpose (being in Being)
  • Compassion
  • Lens on Suffering
  • God’s putting you on
  • Home Is
  • Is Your Work Done Here?
  • Against all Odds, You’re Here
  • The Most Important Feeling
  • Voiding the Void
  • Crossing the Sea of Now
  • God’s Postman
  • Ode to Covid
  • Prayer for the City
  • bear bell
  • fir-psalm haiku
  • hit the spot?
  • grab the leash
  • 925
  • Rerry
  • just give it to your heart, already
  • hoff-ish
  • what now
  • love of a dog
  • 72 going on 40 (sjdl)
  • 11.20.2021
  • someone else’s dream
  • say goodbye
  • odina
  • michelle
  • i’m alone
  • i love you
  • your battle to win
  • sleep easy
  • i only needed a friend
  • dancing with the devil
  • sad man’s compromise
  • what did i drink last nite
  • rob’s song
  • I wonder
  • i don’t know you
  • dreams of the heart
  • the leader and the fool
  • my eyes, my tears
  • to the roof (the dream)
  • song in the wind
  • higher hand
  • sand through my fingers
  • don’t leave me alone
  • brighthouse
  • Can I See You Tonite
  • Breathe me break me whole
  • Fire on the Mountain
  • 3rd Dimension
  • Injo (Aum Sante Maria)
  • 2025
  • 2024
  • 2021
  • 2023
  • 2022
  • Jim MacBeth
  • Michael Welch
  • John Welch
  • (Cal)vin Stead
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