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Only in Retrospect Can I See What I Did

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on January 8, 2015| 5 Comments »

This blank page of a day.
Last night, I had already crumpled
up the paper and thrown it in the trash.
With twin fists, I made it so small,
told myself there were no stories
I was interested in knowing.
This morning, picking it up again,
I watched the paper unrumple itself,
and unfold and unfold until
it was a million million times larger
than any page I could imagine,
big enough to have any story
fit on it, any story at all, even
happily ever after.

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Eight

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 10, 2012| 6 Comments »

did it just start to
sing, that brown bird, or did I
just start to listen?

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a night of fretting,
but the day comes in with a
cartwheel

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that letter so much
more precious now that I
have lost it

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once I took all the
books off the shelves, God arrived
with a blank page

*

today
the leaf just
a leaf

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no pillow tonight!
the poem just grabbed a drum
and crooked its finger

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but I don’t know how
to fly, I said, and God said,
start by falling

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still cupped in my hands
this song hummed to me
seven years ago

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