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Essential

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on September 4, 2022| 6 Comments »

By now, of course,
I know things change—
the leaves of love,
the nest of grief,
the map of yes,
the certainty
of together.
But to know love,
to know yes
for even a moment
is to know it forever.

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One Unusual Delivery Service

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on September 3, 2022| 6 Comments »

tying my prayer
to a passing cloud—
come wind

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Here to Be Swallowed Up

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on September 2, 2022| 4 Comments »




Part of me thrills to walk in the woods
and find dozens of old king boletes,
their cinnamon caps stretched and blotched,
the yellow sponge of their underbellies
bloated with rain and dappled with dross,
their stems turned to lace by maggots.
There was a time I felt responsible
for gathering them all to eat them, to dry them,
to share them, lest they go to waste.
As if I could ever gather them all.
As if to bloom and thrive
and return to the earth is a waste.
The mushrooms teach me something
of what it is to show up, to give it all
for the sake of giving it all.
I feel so lucky now to find their dark puddles
as they deliquesce.
Soon, there will be no evidence
they were here at all. I leave the woods
no less broken, more whole.

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