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resilience

resilience is not always a stiff upper lip it is not always silence sometimes resilience is screaming the throat sore and bruising the ha...

winter

a season, a season sing to yourself a season but to your bones it is deep, deep winter

Five Love Poems

I. Every day she walks in the door a stranger. II. Even together we touch more air than skin. III. To love the distance is to love yourse...

calling all gods everywhere

Calling all gods everywhere — make yourselves useful; cease your petty quibbling and show yourselves. It has appeared that unless you alo...

love, noun

love, noun: actually the opposite of what you thought — not the rush of blood to your head, to your heart. not a verb, or at least not a ...

the moderns

when the moderns said each we are only ‘I’ and then we die — i wonder had they ever felt forgiveness? and then, a dear friend whom I love...

SILENCE

There was a chance, at that early point, that everything would work itself out, and in the order and manner that I anticipated. “Conseque...

to the darkness, I say

To the darkness, I say, do not be otherwise. I will not blaspheme you, friend. I will not sell your soul to stories of hope, nor to any p...

trust

i will always trust someone who tells three stories to tell me one truth

Every Colour

What is space were blue instead of black? Would you still fear death? And if the rotted leaves were shown to breathe, The trees upon thei...

retirement

I think we ought to retire ‘god.’ The name decommissioned and made defunct. People mean so many true things and ‘god’ obscures them. They...

love beyond gods

one late afternoon through a window in a room i stand without a golden- willow wind within our garden swept up and through and whirled ab...

it shall not hold you down

hold to me to my own truth — love is long and round and raucous and shall not hold you down to a name but a way of being to a creed but a...

i ask of the miraculous

i ask of the miraculous, be and if you cannot grow a garden and of the transcendent, descend and if you will not grieve with me i ask of ...

Waffle House Meditation

Kindness darts like lightning. The man who owned the fourteen motels, before any other could (and others would), he bought a day of peace...

slowly something else

Often as I walk and think, I pull flowers from stems and stems from branches. Now they are here and there, in the air and in the story. P...

for my Grandfather

A single-page obituary told me more than you ever did. I never made the drive, which perhaps was selfish, perhaps was simply sensible. Wh...

those

In sun-morning-new-warmth those we call them ‘cats’, and ‘small’ and ‘with a silken grey coat and soft white chest’ but they are not— the...

dust is glad

Do I wonder if one language undoes the poet? Do I fear that poetry slays my love? (Yes, yes.) To be unafraid of all words, at all times, ...

all It does is rise

It does seem that something holds up the sun; some something in requiem and in renascence and in religion, too, i think. It doesn’t seem ...

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