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Saying Goodbye

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on December 28, 2022| 17 Comments »




To say goodbye to one person you love
is to say goodbye to part of yourself.

I must have them, you think. You think,
I can never be whole without them.

But in that gap of the fabric, that tear made of love,
is a place you can climb into at any time

and know the true shape of yourself, which is infinite.
Sometimes it takes the sharp ache of loss

to feel into the truth of our interconnectedness,
to know what the quantum physicists know—

how woven we are with each other,
with the universe,

how woven we are with all that is living
and all that is what we call dead.

Though it’s science, it’s also a kind of faith.
And it’s dark. And it’s sweet. And it’s beautiful,

and it’s terrifying, this thread that reminds us
just how much we belong to the rest of the world,

this thread we can’t untie even if we want to,
this thread that tethers us to one another, to eternity.

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At First It All Felt Like Goodbye

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on May 2, 2022| 8 Comments »




Goodbye to holding you, goodbye
to family trips and snuggling before bed,
goodbye to plans and to laughter,
your clothes and your car. Goodbye
to the awe I felt as I watched you
become more yourself, goodbye
to the dizzying map of promise I saw
as you plotted your days. Goodbye to all I knew.

But now, it’s hello. Hello, love that still grows.
Hello as I rise, when I walk outside.
Hello, with my hands in the dirt, when I drive
the winding alpine divide, hello when I light a candle,
hello when the hot tears come. Hello, I say,
hello, aware now I am never alone.

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At the Airport

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on December 30, 2015| 2 Comments »

 

 

 

the little boy

with a backpack

bigger than he is

stands in line

behind the red rope

 

his tears follow me

through the exit door

to the car parked

in the no parking zone,

 

on my own cheeks

I taste them

 

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Driving Away

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on August 17, 2013| 2 Comments »

not just the light
though that, too, how it bloomed
across the green lawn
but also her waving hands
so empty, so full of light

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