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How can we let go of the things of the world in all their useless beauty? Does night fall into the lake or the lake rise to the sky, either way the shore drifts further away, stars dip, moon lowers it silver ladder, here I go,...

blue at the edge and in the depth light that gets lost scattered on water the purer the water the deeper the blue the sky is blue for the same reason too blue to breathe too blue to believe all blue is suffering not all...

Sitting quietly where we always sat with one more drink than you usually have. No brunch together not even lunch, no early to sleep late and cozily in. Walking where we walked but more sowly, longer, me left further...

that whisper sweet strength beneath southern maple bark prompt chickadee’s first notes whistle the instant between windsculpted rivertop and morning dew wet air click thunder‘s rumbles triumphing deep behind, beyond silver...

I must be the most frequent word in all poems written since 1960 at least by me Lens the world shows through — ever smaller, ever closer — is self-hued, sometimes rose’d always me-tinted Don’t know for sure if that’s...

The answer depends on your perception. If you see a rabbit hole, count it but don’t expect to count them all. Ever. Some people know some rabbit holes some time, but all the rabbit holes don’t welcome all the people all the...

My grandmother cherished her red leather Bible, the perfect arc of Robin’s teeth marks on the back cover, Even more than Jesus’s words in red print. Every single solitary night Gram put out her last cigarette, unwound her bun,...

It began to sink undetected the waters deceptive in their slow progress just a continual flow of benign droplets leaking into a neglected hull we assumed our ship was too sturdy to succumb to something so minor as a few harmless...

It started with only a few hairline cracks in our foundation about the same time we detected the first sugar ants creeping across counters you piled baking soda and borax onto old Corelle saucers left them beneath window sills i...