Category: Meditation
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Autumn prayer
Days shuttle past, lined leaves building to something not yet seen. • • • • I pray that a leaf will break open, unfurl its forever vacant essence, bless me with unbounded paths. I pray that leaves will crunch under my feet, cushion my endless striving, bless me with untrodden paths. I pray that a…
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My window at night x
my mind goes numb at the look of your shadow, gauze hanging there filtering moonlight reflected off bright clouds and I wonder how far you have come, how long you have waited in your bleak disguise behind this shadow how many hints you have thrown, how many desperate plays you have made in your tireless…
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My window at night ix
no sound fuller than the wind tossing leaves up and over and against our window screen as we lie here, breeze smoothing our shoulders retreating, surrendering at long last
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Working and its limits
little in this dry day draws any wealth from my thoughts — hope and wish leave me empty-handed; instead it is the night sky with its low hanging, chattering moon, stars deeper than oceans, tap, tap, tapping on my mind to ask for my attention, nudging it to stir and blossom
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Wondrous new
O wondrous, wondrous new — stone pressed from green blue, red, gray white fragments appear richer in the sun and water, cool in my palm as I wipe sand away, study your shape, your rough edges now smooth, test your weight, wonder of your old, old start, if there was one at all or if…
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Lunch break
down michigan avenue to escape into the wild, to refresh in a kind of feral opening, to stroll past the nature of things, to take in Darwinian oddities unmatched in the deepest forest shops, tourists, taxis, flower pots, stop lights where a shoreline used to wave and flood and turn and curl civilizing the piles…
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