predicament of being alive it isn’t easy on planet earth setbacks carve us staggering low-back pain or your family business fails a parent’s sudden demise empty craters of loss a swallowtail flickers by or the mockingbird’s serenade a dog’s cold nose in greeting jasmine in the air enough joy to keep us here just how to welcome paradox are we vast enough? open?
oh! that last stanza....
Thank you!
How to welcome paradox. A lovely and challenging poem.
Thank you! Challenging in what way, Debora? To understand it? Or the questions that it asks of us?
The questions paradox asks of us - I spend my life exploring such things!
As do I!
"...enough joy to keep us here just" followed by the question, "are we vast enough? open?" Lovely lines!
Thank you, friend...