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little bird with absent eyes you fell alone in the silent darkness through the helpless fingers of the trees discovering you this morning among the new yellow blossoms in the garden possessing all things needed to fly but for a...

come to me for a while today we can imagine it is only autumn before the weary sun reclines into winter’s cold and brittle bed I will wait for you where the birds all atwitter in anticipation hide in the musical apple tree we...

Do you love yourself? i say yes, breaking the promise to my parents that i would never lie till the day the sun sets forever and the oceans run plain of water, i will stay truthful; and i have failed by saying i love myself how...

Watching Love trite off into the sunset, that dusty gaucho making his exit, stock move in a stock movie: Here comes the dusk, here come the credits. Love you forever he said and left. I stay to the end— read the rolling print,...

She’s 80 now, a lifetime of writing, layers of leaves lying thick about her habitation. For years she shuffled pages into neat piles and moved them from one shelf to the next, one wall of her study to the other, there under the...

It’s not easy being the hammer. Oh, you get the nail started— someone has to— but then inexplicably the spike shifts crooked. The wrong angle. The wrong angel driving Adam and Eve right out of Eden. No going back now. No going...

this morning—the cat that needs kept in wants out, and the red-bellied woodpecker is hectoring what he doesn’t seem to be able to prod from the curb. I twitch and the rabbit I have been watching disappears; she’s been cutting...

I want to let go of fear and live a life of fearless badass-ery with joy and hope carving out a space in my heart large enough to carry me and lift up not only me but others around me who need the light of my bravery for what is...

as we step through the winter I want to turn toward the light instead of mourning the day’s end each evening when I twist the shutters closed I want to cherish the light of day light candles and my fireplace and open my heart...

For Kodiak, a most beautiful soul as you go take my love with you and as your spirit goes to join all of those who’ve gone before I lift a new star to the skies to honor you and as the day darkens with the night and our hearts...

I want to see the words that were read to me, aloud and floated into my heart I want to capture them again with my eyes and sear them into my memory To pull out another day when I might need them even more than I needed to hear...