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Gratefulness
Poetry, with its impossible-seeming combination of soft lens and precision, brings to our awareness that which might otherwise go unnoticed and unappreciated. May these poems open our hearts to the nuance and opportunity of each moment.
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So many colors abandon the earth, and go skyward to the trees like origami birds,…
may there be a listening rather than a making curiosity over expectation, lightness and ease,…
Over the hills in the north, the lake comes into view—azure blue water. At first…
Dream-singers, Story-tellers, Dancers, Loud laughers in the hands of Fate— My People. Dish-washers, Elevator-boys, Ladies’…
Now I understand that there are two melodies playing, one below the other, one easier…
Blackberries hang in the darkest creases of the trellis, each dimpled to bursting. The black-eyed…
Ankle-deep in saltwater, a man lifts a small Child and places her on his hip….
somewhere a little girl is reading aloud in the middle of a dirt road. she…
—One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, to remain,…
Like all who believe in the senses, I was an accountant, copyist, statistician. Not registrar,…
In the broken place where we live, hope can be found in the cracks If…
All these mornings are one morning; over and over I am greeted by the new…
Grains of hope still remain Memories invade my brain When I seek peace I feel…
I found him on the porch that morning, sipping cold coffee, watching a crow dip…
Do you love things that cascade? Do you adore rain falling in sheets or over…
She begins, and my grandmother joins her. Mother and daughter sing like young girls. If…
On a fortunate day, when night and day meet, and some silence passes between them…
It covers everything, fine powder, the earth’s gold breath falling softly on the dark wood…
We humus-honed flesh-toned matte-finished mortals dwell on the dome of a miracle: a sparkling and…
call it our craziness even, call it anything. it is the life thing in us…
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