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Sodden Blessing

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on March 22, 2024| 7 Comments »


 
 
It’s warm and steady,
this rain that soaks me.
Perhaps all those tears
this afternoon were practice
for walking in this soft
and relentless baptism
that gathers wetly now
in my lashes, my hair,
my pants, my socks,
my shoes, claiming me
in a damp communion
so complete, so shining,
so dripping with soggy luck
that I choose to walk in it
for hours, evermore certain
I belong to the world.

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Autumn Walk

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on September 25, 2023| 3 Comments »

 
Perhaps it is the autumn light
that makes the walk up
this familiar old dirt road feel
so lucky, so fortunate? This is how
 
I want to meet life—as if
there is no way to contain all
the beauty so it leaks out and floods
the world with gold. Simply strolling
 
up this gravel road, already I
am less whatever I thought I was
and more what an autumn evening
is, something at the edge
 
of impossible. I want to know
the beauty that comes from
release, the radiance of loving what
is, and with tenderness, letting it go.

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