Jan 23, 2018 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes, Poetry
published on Derek Walcott’s birthday — Jan. 23, 1930. Love after Love Derek Walcott The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and...
Jan 1, 2018 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes
Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you....
Dec 12, 2017 | Past Notes, Poetry
Mercy by Rudy Francisco She asks me to kill the spider. Instead I get the most peaceful weapons I can find. I take a cup & a napkin I catch the spider put it outside and allow it to walk away. If i am ever caught in the wrong place at the wrong time just being...
Oct 19, 2015 | Past Notes, Poetry
published in Twig, Seattle Washington new year. Ned Hayes Rosh Hashanah comes this year on a day of cool wind, a breathtaking portent of winter taking the world, rude lover tossing the sheets away. in autumn the sadness...
Jan 23, 2015 | Past Notes, Poetry
published in 2003, appeared in Seattle School of Theology and Ministry Review praying with one eye open. Ned Hayes (after Mark Strand) through dark windows, the clouds move like one thinks a bird might, old ghost caught by light, scattered feathers fractured...
