On the Streets of Dar es Salaam

Here’s a poem I wrote 2 years ago while visiting my sister in Africa…
 
On the streets of Dar es Salaam:
Owner-less vendors sell dignity and bananas-
Flashlights and globalization-
Speak in tongues, but still spit American slogans.
Potholed pavement, lucky to be paved.
Missionaries searching for the unsaved.
Sad, saggy, somber eyes
Asking why I’m in their country,
Because they were already colonized-
Children [...]

On campus, at 8am, for the last time

Today i finished my last class of my undergraduate education at CSU, and walking through the campus at 8am I was filled with emotions. 3 girlfriends, visits to the hospital, many, many friends, 2 jobs, 5 years, and who knows how much personal growth, have all seemingly flashed through my life, leaving bits and pieces of themselves [...]

Midnight Train

There’s a train that rolls through downtown Fort Collins around midnight nearly every night, and tonight, I stopped hating that train. It was a very strange experience. I was deep in meditation; my window half cracked and the cool late spring air was keeping my breathing easy; a cone of sandalwood incense burned next to [...]