Posted in Uncategorized, tagged poem, poetry, shortcut, surrender on September 23, 2017| 1 Comment »
Surrender is not like this highway
with its dotted lines and passing lanes
and its well-marked exit signs.
Surrender is more a dirt country road
where you’ve taken a turn
that doesn’t show up in the map.
And then run out of gas. And
get a flat. And then, when you think
it can’t get worse, you start
to giggle, then full belly laugh.
Yeah, surrender is something like that.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged direction, poem, poetry, surrender on August 29, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged monsoon, poem, poetry, surrender on August 19, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Here is his ferocity—
how it opens him like a monsoon
here is your umbrella
fling it in the rain
let the flood rearrange you
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged love, parenting, poem, poetry, surrender on August 7, 2017| Leave a Comment »
I tell myself this is how love begins,
with a grumble. A rock in the shoe.
The flowers dead. Sleet.
This is how love begins, with taunting.
With mud on its feet. It begins
when we can’t imagine loving.
It begins when there is no light.
This is how love begins. When
we’re too exhausted to fight,
and as we slump, a door appears,
and we can’t imagine not
walking through it.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged acceptance, letting go, poem, poetry, surrender on May 10, 2017| 5 Comments »
unable to hold things together
I open my hands, let everything drop
and feel how the world holds me
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beauty, poem, poetry, proof, surrender on May 2, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Beside the highway,
the willows are beginning
to find their green
and the dandelions
have begun to spell
their golden praise
across the ground.
What more did I think
I needed today?
Some proof that things
do not fall apart?
Let me surrender
to beauty, brief
as it is, the melody
that plays beneath
all other melodies.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged poem, poetry, surrender, voice on April 23, 2017| Leave a Comment »
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