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the music of what happens
the music of what happens, is now and then too loud, like boots stomping on glass shards, or maybe too quiet, the gulf before grief takes root.
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Daily gifts
Daily Gifts Believe in the smaller generosities —James Crews While I’m gazing out the window a dark-eyed Junco flies to the ledge, cocks her head at me…
Jan 30
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sitting in the way of
sitting in the way of So much can grow in the gaps of things —James Crews That leap the no-mind gazelle carries me new Seeded in that gap a spore More…
Jan 28
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my pocket of tiny tools
my pocket of tiny tools always available gathered from life’s thrust fertile grains of life's riddle I carry them everywhere— pause, take note breathe…
Jan 22
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Lilt
Lilt 2003 A week at the Abbey among Buddhist monks attuning to their rhythm: Before dawn wake-up seated meditation chanting and ceremony periods of work…
Jan 21
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Close Calls
Close Calls Rafts in rough surging, thrashing The surest, trust that water Surrender, find the way to floating best we can This is the work Let’s see…
Jan 19
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Hand to Hand
Light to Light In this ramble called life filled with sorrows, trouble my far-flung friends cast poems, like lights from hand to hand It’s how we cope…
Jan 18
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Field of the Mind
Field of the Mind Thorns grow in the field of the mind; clear them and there's no finer place.
Jan 17
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Excavation
Excavation This that we speak of can never be found by seeking, yet only seekers find it. —Al Bastami, born 804 CE This phrase haunted, lived inside my…
Jan 16
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The Shape of Things
The Shape of Things Winter reveals structure. —Madeleine L’Engle Stripped in autumn, willows’ arc the profile of their weeping Gravity at play X-rays…
Jan 13
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Threadbare
Threadbare When I am threadbare, cloth worn to a sheen I draw on my lights You know who you are Most, on the planet a few without body, spirit-full…
Jan 11
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What No Longer Works?
What No Longer Works?
Jan 6
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