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One Last Night

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on November 21, 2021| 10 Comments »

 
his breathing shallow
still he laughs, says I love you—
this bright falling star

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Shavasana

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on September 5, 2017| 2 Comments »

 

 

Once again, the field rehearses how to die.

Some of the grass turns golden first. Some

simply fades into brown. Just this morning,

I, too, lay in corpse pose, practicing

how to let myself be totally held by the earth

without striving, how to meet the day

without rushing off to do the next necessary

or beautiful thing. Soon, the grass will bend

or break, molder or disintegrate. Every year,

the same lesson in how to join

the darkness, how to be unmade, how quietly

we might lean into the uncertainty

of whatever comes next.

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Epistemology

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on August 28, 2012| 3 Comments »

I knew myself a swirl of ash
swept grayly by the wind
like wings, only without the bird,
like kites without their strings.

And I, who have been dead, tonight
I know myself the moon
with rings around it in the dark.
And I the darkness, too.

But I am also not the dark,
not moon, not ash, not kite,
not anything that can be held,
something beyond the lines.

I know myself a spilling thing,
a raveling, a leak.
Call it blessing, call it luck
the vessel as it breaks.

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