Poetry
Last Night As I Was Sleeping
Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt—marvelous error!— that a spring was breaking out…
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Poetry
Poetry, with its impossible-seeming combination of soft lens and precision, brings to our awareness that which might otherwise go unnoticed and unappreciated. May these poems open our hearts to the nuance and opportunity of each moment.
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The Grief Cry of James
Two expressions of the mystery: one of sudden joy and arriving, one of profound grief…
Poetry
A Ritual to Read to Each Other
If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the…
Poetry
The Wind, One Brilliant Day
The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of jasmine. "In…
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The Way It Is
There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change.…
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The Traveling Onion
When I think how far the onion has traveled just to enter my stew today,…
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Obeying the Impulse
The world exists just fine without our appreciation. It is not for us that the…
