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Blood, Like Salt Water

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on May 27, 2023| 10 Comments »


 
 
There is in each of us an ocean
full of secrets strange and luminous,
an ocean with depths we do not understand,
with dark we often fear,
a place almost impossible to visit
and yet it moves with us
everywhere we go,
informs every conversation,
underlies every thought.
There is treasure there,
but it belongs to the depths
the way the heart
belongs to the body.
Everything depends on this.
Lately, I’m learning to think of treasure
only as a verb,
not as a thing to be taken.
I’m learning that to live
is to be an ocean.
 

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And I Can’t Find My Way Back In

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on February 6, 2014| 2 Comments »

All these years
I thought I might be
the one who had opened
the can. Such surprise
to find I am one
of the worms.

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Metempsychosis

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on August 14, 2013| 5 Comments »

Here in the garden
the trees do what trees do—
they do not grow beyond
their ability to support themselves.

In the top of this weeping birch,
the branches are leafless and dead.
They will never grow again,
nor will the tree replace them.

I think of all the ways we try
to heal ourselves, each other.
All the ways we go back to the pain
of the past as if it has some answers.

What if we could let them die, those thoughts,
those wounded ideas of how it should have been,
let them turn brittle and gray, and when
they have lost their weight, let them fall away.

I see how the breeze moves through the leaves
that remain, how green they are, how alive.

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