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Category Archives: Love

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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Finding things lost

October 4, 2018

I no longer trust myself having searched all morning for the missing piece in our endless jigsaw and come up …

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In ordinary time

October 3, 2017

Dust stirs as I walk to your door, hat by my side. Long pond lies still, weeds bending, expectant. How …

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Buddhista 3

June 22, 2017

It is a miracle that you survive day after long day in the cold, under rain, through whining wind. Once, …

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What love could learn from fungus if it would only listen

June 8, 2017

I wish you could spread in that restless, vindictive, ambling way — to not be held back, to spew spores …

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In the middle of the night

June 4, 2017

How you pull me down and up at once. In you I see ancient, raw days when I brought something …

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Love like a river

April 26, 2017

Even the meek swell with water running down. Come now, spill yourself into our long water. Let it trail you …

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An Easter thought

April 14, 2017

It does not seem fair in all the measures of life that our heavy ways hang in expectance on these …

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March 2017

March 30, 2017

Slowly, slowly life comes back. Hair-fine roots far below the surface muster a wiggle, a stretch, and stir for us …

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Even so

March 4, 2017

Even as you sit smoking weed in the room I just cleaned and leave your papers and dirty dishes on …

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