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Self-Blessing 

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on October 15, 2026| 5 Comments »


 
 
I wish you the grace 
to be quiet—the grace and 
the time to lie quiet 
in the still green grass
on a sundrenched day 
and not go for a walk
in the radiant leaves,
and not write anyone back.
Not read a book. Not make
a call. Not plan whatever
comes next. Not do anything 
at all but lie still and quiet 
in the lush and still green grass
and let the earth do what 
the earth does best, which
is receive whatever weight 
comes. May you have a friend 
beside you whose hand rests 
in yours, and may you 
say nothing at all, not 
a single beautiful word at all. 
For hours. 
And when you rise, and
rise you will to reenter
the thrumming, clamoring
world, may you carry 
within you all that quiet, 
all that glorious still. 

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Self-Blessing

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on September 12, 2024| 9 Comments »


for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing
                  —Galway Kinnell, “Saint Francis and the Sow”
 
 
Let this version of me splayed out
on the ground like a wrung out rag
know this moment, too, is holy.
This terrible moment.
When I cannot fathom my own divinity.
May whatever is sacred move through me
so the hand that blesses me
is my own trembling hand.
So the tender voice that soothes me
is my own broken voice.
My own, but not my own.
As wind makes the leaf dance.
As wind makes the branches sing.
I wish it were as simple as being touched by wind.
Is it not as simple as being touched by wind?

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