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Three Months After His Death

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged acceptance, communion, death, oneness, sky, window on November 29, 2021| 7 Comments »

Let’s say there’s a window
at the end of a long dark hall—
the more we walk toward it
the farther away it feels.
And then, let’s say, we stop
trying to get anywhere and meet
where we are. That is how
I found myself on the other side
of the window, released
into sky—blue sky, then tangerine
sky, then sky dusky pink.
That is how I found myself
talking with my son the way
we used to whenever he went
to camp—through the sky.
Only this time we didn’t talk.
We just were. Together.
I would say we were fused,
but more truly, perhaps, commingled,
as if our atoms were diffused enough
to commune. To know this
for a moment is to know it
forever—how it is that
there is no separation.
How it is that we are one.

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What the Sky Knows

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gratefulness, grief, holding, sky on November 26, 2021| 5 Comments »

Before the feast,
I slip outside
into the rose glow
of evening and
talk to my loves
who no longer
walk this earth,
and I thank them
for being in my life
and I cry and cry.
How is it possible
at the same time
to hold so much grief
and so much gratitude?
And the sky holds me
and the rooftops, the
streets and the fields,
the factories and forests,
it holds it all, holds
what is most beautiful,
holds what is most foul.
It doesn’t try to change
anything. Like that,
it seems to say
as it turns a deeper
rose. Like that.

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One Expansion

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged sky, spaciousness, worry on October 29, 2020| Leave a Comment »

swallowing the sky tonight—

all those enormous worries in me

now like grains of sand

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Join Me?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged communion, love, sky, tea on October 16, 2020| Leave a Comment »

all day I spike my tea

with sky—

is it any wonder

by night I’m singing

love songs

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One Wheeling

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged comet, sky, stars on July 20, 2020| 3 Comments »

watching the comet

I, too, hurtle through the stars—

disappear beyond the horizon

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One Marvelous Evening

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged happiness, sky on July 10, 2020| 4 Comments »

weaving a little sky

into my hair—

swallows dive through my thoughts

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One Lucky

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blue, poem, poetry, sky on December 29, 2019| Leave a Comment »

sky so blue

forgetting everything

but blue

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One Reveal

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged light, night, poem, poetry, sky on December 20, 2019| 2 Comments »

long bright meteor

unzipping the night—

now the dark so naked

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On a Day When the Sky Is So Blue, So Clear

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged connection, poem, poetry, sky on September 26, 2018| 2 Comments »

I imagine writing a one-line poem

long enough to reach you—

imagine how the words might quiver

in the wind, how I might climb

their serifs like a thin-runged ladder

and follow the words

to you like breadcrumbs,

like footprints, like hope.

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All Night I Dreamt

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged love, poem, poetry, praise, sky on April 4, 2014| 1 Comment »

all night I dreamt
I was holding up the sky
so every child
could know sunshine—
is it any wonder this morning
my arms will not come down?

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