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Seventy-Two and You
Mom said you’d be seventy-two today and it made me think of how seventy-two you would look and sound and feel in this morning. How your baby blue eyes…
Oct 31
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Good to All
First Joanna, now Jane — autumn leaves falling, earthquakes in my soul. To have lived so long and yet still too short is a legacy of goodness for us…
Oct 2
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Between Two Terminals
In this liminal space, between two terminals, a young man passes wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with these words of worship: Make Wealth & Inspire. My…
Sep 25
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Empathy is the Way
Yesterday I cried for a man
Sep 12
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End of This Ice Age
When my heart thaws from the bitterness, the cold indifference our society has fostered, may this glacier of love flood the lives of each being it…
Jul 18
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For Andrea
I looked up yesterday and learned you were gone… I looked up this morning to discover you still live, stacked upon my highest shelf, between giants…
Jul 15
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The Moment a Storm Passes
I placed my indoor plants outside so they too could feel cool rain upon their tender leaves, to taste clouds within their soil, to feel the breeze brush…
Apr 27
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Home
It’s always where she is, what she does, also what she doesn’t do even now that her nest is empty, but always welcoming — anytime, anywhere she and I…
Apr 5
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Silence
In such a loud world silence is a poem to the very heart of those who chose to listen and wish to hear earth language in its purest form.
Mar 21
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Ash and Ivory
I’ll never understand how faced with a choice between elephants or trillionaires, people with children kept choosing the latter. How they chose not to…
Feb 21
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Weightlessness
It is said the very moment we try to name a bird a bird, we lose the immeasurables of our vast, profound universe.
Feb 6
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Ashokawna Sunrise
I’m taken by the elegant ways clouds dance amongst forest crowns, redwoods scribble love poems in the morning fog, the river sings praise songs to a…
Feb 1
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