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For Easter

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on March 31, 2024| 4 Comments »


 
 
We drop six small,
bright-colored tabs
into six glass cups.
Add vinegar. Water.
And my girl and I
make plaid eggs
and striped eggs
and eggs painted
with feathery strokes.
We sing along to country
songs, and joy colors me
like dawn colors sky,
a beauty so fleeting,
but while it lasts,
it lights the whole world.

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The Call

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on April 26, 2023| 4 Comments »


 
 
Dawn, and the geese announce
their landing on the pond—
and though the reluctant body says sleep,
the heart rouses to attend their arrival.
So many awakenings seem to happen like this:
when I feel least ready, least willing, most averse,
something demands I rise—
something strident, insistent, wildly alive,
saying, Now! It’s time! You’re here.

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One Inexplicable Lightness

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on February 15, 2023| 4 Comments »




the way sun arrives—
first as a suggestion of light,
then startlingly brilliant

so comes this revelation—
I forgive you

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When I Want to Hold On

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on May 7, 2021| 4 Comments »


 
 
 
Teach me
to trust
the hope
that blooms
inside
the loss,
the love
that’s at
the heart
of fear—
teach me
to molt,
to slough,
to shed,
to doff,
to meet
the first light
and then
let even that
go.

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A Few Mornings after the School Shooting Threat

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

 

 

 

The pre-dawn light has already

claimed the stars so that anything

I might try to name in the sky

has disappeared—though there

is still one planet dazzling and white

just above the horizon. Perhaps

it’s better that I don’t know

how to name it, know only

to praise it, it’s small insistence

on light the only thing

I need to know.

 

 

 

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One Unglimmering

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on April 23, 2015| 1 Comment »

before the dawn
the possibility of dawn—
all night holding that

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