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The Fence Post to the Mist

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on October 21, 2024| 11 Comments »

Show me again
how you do that trick,
the one where you roll,
where you lift,
where you disappear.

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In the Meantime

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on September 2, 2024| 13 Comments »


 
 
It is only a matter of time before
the next monsoon brings a surge
of frothing red water hurtling
down the gulley, and yet my neighbor
landscapes the flood path
with meticulously placed rocks
and raised beds with bright flowers,
and every time I drive by I want
to cheer for her foolishness,
cheer for all who make beauty
certain it will be destroyed
and relentlessly choose
to be in service to beauty anyway.

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Evanescent

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on February 12, 2023| 8 Comments »

For a few minutes a day
for a few days of the year,
the sun shines low through the window
and casts a shadow high on the wall,
as this morning, when I see
the shape of six chrysanthemums
splayed in diffuse gray
just below the ceiling
and I put down my work to marvel.
It’s simple science, really,
how opaque objects
placed in the path of light rays
do not let the light pass through.
But there’s something so beautiful
and temporary
about the giant spectral blooms,
so I do what the heart asks me to do—
I watch as the ephemeral bouquet
intensifies, then fades away
until the wall is just a wall
and I am just a woman
beside six purple chrysanthemums
who was found by a moment of grace.

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After the Three-Day Retreat

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on November 5, 2022| 8 Comments »




Rubbing our eyes,
we sit in a small circle
in the half-lit room,
drinking whiskey
and eating potato chips,
still high on the glow
of good work,
and for a moment,
I see this night for what it is—
radiant as a Japanese maple in fall
blazing vermillion
against a backdrop of brown—
something so wonderful
it couldn’t possible last,
but my god, while it’s happening,
how astonishing, how right.

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One Ephemeral

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on June 21, 2021| 1 Comment »

like trying to hold a waterfall—
this beauty
that can only be lived

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