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I Was Constantly Looking

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on October 13, 2012| 2 Comments »

First I wanted
to find the straightest
path from me to you,
and clear it
of all the stones,
the cliffs, the weeds.
Now I feel it is all
the path, how it all
leads to you, even
the stones,
the cliffs, weeds.

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Or Is It Learning to be More Than That?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 1, 2012| 9 Comments »

I curl the question mark of my body
into the silence around us. There is silence

inside of us, too, a pure silence that pools
and spills and overflows making it easier now to not know,

to not even guess what comes next,
and after years of wanting answers and trying

to make the world fit into an equation or an outline
or a calendar square or a rhyme scheme, I am

more easy now with falling into silence, with falling and
not even believing in wings, falling past

the hands reaching out to rescue me as if
falling is a terrible thing. But even falling

is a form of knowing, just a new metaphor,
a new word for path. And even a question mark

knows where it curves, where it is line, where it
breaks, where it becomes a point, one small point

amongst many small points. I am learning,
unlearning, to be less than that.

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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on January 3, 2012| 2 Comments »

when you rose
to leave, all the paths
went with you

*

Tied to your hand
by a string, the moon tugs on
a string held by mine

*

I’d like twelve arms
two to hold you while the other
ten let you go

*

I toss a coin up
to the sun, heads, tails, this coin
with your name on it

*

before I could ask if
you’d kiss even the blackest
part of me, you did

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Here

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on December 20, 2011| 3 Comments »

Perhaps
these rocks
that look
like stumb-
ling blocks
are cairns,
and I
have, with
such diligence,
been kicking
them from
my way—
oh foolish
woman
who thought
that she
was lost.

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