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Because: Cinepoem from RISKING LOVE

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on September 12, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Feeling helpless? Hopeless? In every moment, the constant invitation: Be ridiculously courageous in love. As if the world depends on it. “Because” is the fourteenth track on RISKING LOVE, a spoken-word album that explores how we might fall more deeply in love with the world as it is, even when that seems impossible. 

This short video of one of my most popular poems was created by Holiday Mathis. PLEASE–SHARE THIS VIDEO. With a friend. With your family. With a colleague. 

RISKING LOVE has 15 tracks–this is #14. It’s a collaboration with audio by Steve Law. Video by Holiday Mathis. To purchase RISKING LOVE, visit here. Spotify: here   Deezer: here   Pandora: here   Apple Music: here   YouTube Music: here

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Adapting

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on September 12, 2025| Leave a Comment »


 
 
The way moss softens
the edges of what is hard.
The way it thrives in shadow.
Oh heart. The work
of loving the world
can look so much
like moss doing
what moss does—
growing in places
that seem uninhabitable.
It doesn’t even need roots
to survive.

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What Is Here

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on October 16, 2024| 2 Comments »


 
Midsummer, she stood in the midst
of deep blue delphinium
and did not move. Stood
until she became delphinium.
Till she petalled and pollened
and blued. Oh joy in the flesh
that forgets it is bound to an I.
Joy in the flesh that remembers
it’s part of it all. Months later,
she returns to the stems, tall
and brown and dead.
Did she really believe
things would not change?
This is the way she learns
what she wants the most:
To be open to falling in love
with the world as it is—
beyond hope, beyond wish,
beyond memory.
To not mistake love
for the object of love.
To stand in the midst
of what is brittle and gone
and fall in love with
exactly what is here.

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One Silver Split Key Ring

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on February 8, 2016| 3 Comments »

 

            a found poem

 

 

mom, she says,

I found this ring I’m wearing

on the ground—

do you think it means

the world and I are married?

 

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