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My soul work is this

April 29, 2020

That I no longer hope to be a saint That I no longer think you want me to be That …

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Seven attempts to settle my mind

April 24, 2020

i. my mind chews its way through each of my lessons spitting back what the animal dislikes savoring its own …

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Old elm (revised)

April 14, 2020

Abandoned farmhouse, graying outbuildings. In your final winter, you stood with empty, cracking branches to tell us plain that your …

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And our longings will meet

April 6, 2020

coming in the house with sand between your toes or mud covering your boots, you may pause by my old …

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As we begin

April 3, 2020

rain falls from fog through sleeping branches (frail, broken sticks?), soaks with slippery ease into soil to restore them Note: …

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2019, my Dad and coming back

March 28, 2020

2019 was a year that was filled with loss for me and my family – a dear aunt, my step …

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Tanka for working from home

March 23, 2020

In interesting times, I write at my son’s old desk cut into his closet stuffed with childhood remnants curse, avalanche …

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To my Aunt Cathy

March 18, 2019

Originally posted on Poems from in between:
It was as we played king of the raft — bobbing the way it did, always…

Pond and Brook

December 11, 2018

I leave my Pond and Brook by the bedside, with its buzzing mayflies, fin-splashed surface, amoeba-soaked beach, and head downstairs, …

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The hill faraway

November 11, 2018

The hill stands innocent as it always has – empty now, or perhaps drowsily crossed by weekend strollers. What is …

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