night, don’t end so soon—
so many stars
yet to wish on
Posts Tagged ‘night’
One for the Lengthening Days
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged darkness, night, poem, poetry, wishing on January 1, 2018| 2 Comments »
First Thought
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged night, poem, poetry, presence on December 30, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Not thinking tonight
of what I could have done
or what I could have said.
Instead, night wraps
around me like a shawl
and holds me close
and says, Yes,
you are here, just here.
One Blessing
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged moon, night, poem, poetry on November 6, 2017| 2 Comments »
When You Are Far Away
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged love, night, parenting, poem, poetry on August 16, 2017| Leave a Comment »
The night is enormous—
big enough to hold us both
in a way that make us
seem close.
This is why I speak to you
through the stars—
not because I think
that they can hear,
but because I pray
you can.
Nocturne
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged language, night, poem, poetry on September 12, 2016| 1 Comment »
Even after everything is said
there is so much left unsaid.
I have measured the nights in stars
and lost track. I struggle to say
something true. When I stop
trying, I notice the how night
comes in and fills my throat.
Though no one can hear it,
it says everything I wish to say.
There is a Moment When
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged communion, darkness, night, poem, poetry, self, union on January 28, 2016| 3 Comments »
the dark is less dark
and the shapes of the world
reveal again their singular shapes—
I know they don’t really lose their lines in the dark,
but I like to imagine all those newly
illumined silhouettes
have spent the night blurred, puddled
into one immense darkness,
forgetting for a while
that they have any lines
worth preserving.
It is enough to make a woman
wish that the light
would never come
if that is what it takes
to make us all remember
how arbitrary they are,
these boundaries we like
to call ourselves.
Said the Mother to the Child, to Herself
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged darkness, fear, night, parenting, peotry, poem on November 9, 2015| 2 Comments »
So dark out there,
of course you’re scared
and want to hide
inside,
but notice how
when you turn off
the lights—I know
it sounds unwise—
that’s when you’ll find
that it’s not black
but gray, the night,
and you can see
quite well once you
let darkness open
slowly up your eyes.
Without Thinking
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged long marriage, love, night, poem, poetry on July 24, 2015| 4 Comments »
All night we turn
into each other’s arms
between dreams,
readjusting our bellies,
our backs, our toes
so they touch each other
lightly. Not the fumbling
of the newly met,
but the tenderness
of the long married,
we who know the
other’s body—all
the angles and softnesses,
all the positions where we
gently fit if only we bend an elbow
just so, if only we move
our leg just here—
how easy it is
to bend together
through darkness, how
beautiful to find you,
to be found.
Still Practicing
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged love, night, poem, poetry on May 16, 2013| 8 Comments »
I have wanted
to love you. Not just
to love you, but to love you
in the way you want to be loved.
This is not always the same thing.
A woman walks out into night
and it holds her. Sometimes
this comforts her. Sometimes
she is terrified. Sometimes
she loses her own edges
and becomes night.
There is no loss in this.
There is a moment
just before we say
I love you when the feeling
is truer than the syllables
that follow. That’s what
I am trying to do.
What night does.
two new
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged haiku, new moon, night, poem, shadow, unity on December 8, 2012| 2 Comments »
night so dark
not even my shadow
walks with me
*
fooled you
said my shadow
the shape of the night
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