C.M. Rivers

"I only borrowed this dust." ~ Stanley Kunitz

Journal

  • Obituary

    Will it only be a list of information, a collection of the external? Born in so-and-so, to these parents of this descent, lived here and then here, and then here.  Worked as a nurse, a cook, an accountant, managed a dry cleaning business, taught fifth graders or at the university, produced movies.  (Your name here)… Read more

  • Refugees Welcome

    Refugees Welcome

    There are places to rest along the miles of all your days, if you will only sit… Read more

  • “Thanks” by W.S. Merwin

    Listen with the night falling we are saying thank you we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings we are running out of the glass rooms with our mouths full of food to look at the sky and say thank you we are standing by the water thanking it standing by the… Read more

  • Stephen Levine’s Definition of Death

    “It is the ultimate in natural conservation in which the container is discarded but the contents are recycled.”   – Stephen Levine Read more

  • Mother’s Day

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  • Whirlwind: How The Heart Is Wiser Than The Mind

    There are times when our thoughts sweep us away.  We get caught up in the whirlwind of the mind’s magnetic pull, and something needs to happen to reel us back to the moment we’re actually in and what is happening there.  It could be something small: we have forgotten the bread in the oven, or… Read more