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So Good

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on March 16, 2026| 2 Comments »


 
In a world of bests, good is a relief. Best invites an argument; good is just a suggestion.
—Melissa Kirsch, “What’s Good” in The New York Times, March 14, 2026
 
 
This morning I slip out of my good bed
into my good green slippers. I drink good coffee
and play a good game of chase with my nephews.
They are good, good boys. I take a good long drive
with my good old friend and we arrive in a town
I have loved for years full of good memories 
and good people. There we eat a good dinner
and then spend a night sharing poems. 
I’m grateful for the poems that make me ache,
because it’s good to bear what’s bad together. 
It’s not easy. But real. Real good. The kind of good
that makes your whole body hum, that makes 
your hands clap and your heart stretch wide, 
feeling so good, so good, even as you cry. 

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After Angela Tells Me She’s Looking for Proof of Good in the World

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on January 15, 2026| 8 Comments »


 
 
I go walking up a backcountry road
and for ten minutes, a crow flies above
and before me, resting in trees along the way,
as if showing me the way to go.
Someone has made smiley faces out of pebbles
and left them on many large flat stones.
And the orange jeep that passes me
pulls a U turn and Trevor jumps out
and says, “I just wanted to hug you.”
If I knew only this hour, it would be easy
to believe the world is only good.
But I carry in me the certainty
that rupture is part of the whole.
I know cruelty lives in us all.
I know, too, the white truck slowed down
when it passed me, as if the driver said,
walker, I will make sure you feel safe.
I know when I turned not just out but in,
I felt such genuine love for the world.
That love was the strongest proof of all.  

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