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One New Step

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on May 16, 2019| Leave a Comment »

 

 

weeping beside

the pussy willows—

all those tears

over saying goodbye,

I wouldn’t uncry

a single one

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The Next Storm Comes

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on December 31, 2018| 4 Comments »

 

 

And suddenly you know: It’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.

            —Meister Eckhart

 

 

And suddenly you know it’s time

to shovel the drive. For though snow

still falls, at this moment it’s only

 

three inches deep and you can still push it easily

with your two wide yellow shovels.

Yes, it’s time to start something new—

 

though it doesn’t feel new, this

shoving snow from one place to another.

In fact, your shoulders still feel

 

the efforts of yesterday.

But with each push of the shovels,

the path on the drive is new again. At least

 

it’s new for a moment, new until snow

fills it in. Then it’s a different kind of new.

How many beginnings are like this?

 

They don’t feel like beginnings at all?

Or we miss their newness?

Or they feel new only for a moment

 

before they’ve lost their freshness?

There is magic in beginnings, says Meister Eckhart,

and sometimes we see beginnings all around us,

 

a new path, a new promise, a new meal.

A new prayer. New snow fall. A new song.

Is it too grand to call it magic, this new calendar year?

 

Too grand to call it magic, this momentary

clearing on the drive? Too grand to be magic,

this momentary clearing in my thoughts?

 

Or is it exactly, perhaps, what magic is—

something we allow ourselves to believe,

despite logic, despite reason, something that brings

 

us great pleasure, makes us question

what we thought we knew, our sense

of what is possible changed.

 

 

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In One Move

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on January 1, 2017| Leave a Comment »

 

 

 

wings cramped

in that nest of last year—

 

rediscovering how to fly

I leave all those twigs

exactly where they are

 

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Before the First Step

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on December 29, 2016| 3 Comments »

 

And again we draw the starting line

and dig for the courage to toe it.

This, too, is a beginning.

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Three Beginnings

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on January 3, 2013| 3 Comments »

just like heaven
–Katie Melua

she said, girl you ain’t
got a prayer, and I thought that’s
a fine place to start

*

odd, all this snow
around, six below, and here
we are blossoming

*

in the bowl, reflection
of sky—kneeling
I drink it

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