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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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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…
And a poet said, Speak to us of Beauty. And he answered: Where shall you…
. . . and silence is the golden mountain. —Jack Kerouac Listen. Turn everything off….
“This prayer from the Rwala Bedouin people belongs to a richly complex ritual performed by…
More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s…
What would you do if you really knew that life was wanting to sing through…
Thank you for this day made of wind and rain and sun and the scent…
Glory of plums, femur of Glory. Glory of ferns on a dark platter. Glory of…
He has flown headfirst against the glass and now lies stunned on the stone patio,…
For Josie On the day when The weight deadens On your shoulders And you stumble,…
You are a temple of mud and soul just like us …
When we get through this, I want us to set a table with all of…
To a Brown Boy ’Tis a noble gift to be brown, all brown, Like…
It happens, you know—the day opens itself like a tulip in a warm room, and…
The water is one thing, and one thing for miles. The water is one thing,…
to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and…
Like a rain I feel but cannot see, the names of the dead, falling. Silences…
I grew up in a family that did not tell the story. I am listening…
a body is always a body individual or collective (whole or in many pieces) alive…
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