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One Cleaning the Closet of the Mind

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on January 8, 2023| 6 Comments »


 
 
how threadbare these thoughts
I’ve chosen to wear every day—
replacing them with nothing

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Things that Turn

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on September 8, 2022| 6 Comments »

A new leaf,
a blind eye,
a disco ball,
the corner,
a key,
a page,
the hands of a clock,
the other cheek,
the milk,
a wrench,
a phrase,
the tables,
a turbine,
a deaf ear,
a trick,
your back,
the tide,
a screw,
heads, of course,
the earth itself,
and ever my thoughts
toward you.

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One Illumination

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on August 10, 2021| Leave a Comment »


 
 
night so dark
even my thoughts dim—
then (oh!) fireflies!

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One Memoir

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on February 18, 2021| Leave a Comment »

 
 
these beautiful thoughts
old pages turned yellow
every word still true

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Could I Say It and Really Mean It?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on December 4, 2020| 4 Comments »

A pomegranate, tennis racket,

wide open lily—basically anything

can act as a Trojan horse to get

those old ideas close to me,

and dang, I’m confronted again

with all the ways I’ve let down

the world and all the ways

I could have, I should have

done better. How many times

have I tried to escape these thoughts?

I’ve run mountain races and

written thousands of pages

and wept a spring flood and

confessed and bled and still

they find a way back to me.

Sometimes they come knives drawn,

but more often they come

wearing fluffy robes and slippers,

making themselves at home.

I cornered one today, looked it

right in the eye. What? I said.

What do I have to do?

It shook its head and said,

All I ever wanted

was for you to say thank you.

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Progress

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on August 25, 2020| 4 Comments »

Perhaps I am more like the earthworm

  than I thought—

    one part of me anchored in place

      while the rest of me moves forward.

    Every time I go, I also stay.

  Every time I reach ahead, part of me holds on.

Over and over, I pull myself along.

  What looks like progress is slow.

    No path except the one I make

      by letting the world move through me.

    In order to proceed, I make of myself a wave.

  In order to proceed, I must let go.

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First Night in Mexico

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on February 18, 2020| Leave a Comment »

 

for Colette

 

 

Beside my bed, she left

a beautiful beaded hummingbird

and a story about how the Mayans

believe that these birds will transport

all of our good wishes and desires

to another. Tonight, there is no one

I wouldn’t send this bird to—

not just to my loved ones,

but to my unloved ones, the ones

I would rather forget, the ones

I would rather ignore. Oh little bird,

with your bright body and shining wings,

let’s get to work. Let’s send out

extraordinary beauty tonight,

extraordinary love.

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One Persistence

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on July 30, 2019| 2 Comments »

 

 

 

in my thoughts

a tap-rooted weed

sometimes I notice

its beautiful pink blooms

before I pull it again

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Like an Icicle, A Thought

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on March 17, 2019| Leave a Comment »

 

 

It is the child of cold and warmth.

It is right it should show up

both cloudy and clear,

this union of opposites,

shaped like a spear, piercing

the silence with dripping, dripping.

It forms itself

the same way it disappears.

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One Growing Clarity

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on February 25, 2019| Leave a Comment »

 

 

 

scraping snow

off the car windshield—

so, too, these frozen thoughts

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