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Category: Almost Poetry

March 21, 2016May 8, 2019A // W // F

brave words for fearful people …

Go out into the world:

Go!  Yes, you — though you are fearful and fragile and small.

Go broken-winged and bent-boned and beauty-starved… Lovesick.  Stardrunk. Skydizzy.

Or go sharp-eyed and sober, if that’s how it is — the hunger for the light a clenched fist in your stomach …

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February 5, 2016May 8, 2019A // W // F

rock-steady

You.

You.

You.

You have loved me
like mountains do …

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January 14, 2016May 8, 2019A // W // F

the imperfectionist’s prayer

oh, Lord, leave me …

… undone.

heal me, but don’t –
(forgive me
for saying it) …

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September 29, 2015September 29, 2015A // W // F

still waters …

i smooth my soulinto somethingalmost like silence: the river at rest is the one that reflects the sky. ❤

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August 6, 2015August 6, 2015A // W // F

Oh, God, if only you might give me the words …

… to speak the song the cicadas are singing —that murmur and hum filling the trees.But their song is wholly their own,and no matter what words I use,mine would only be a poor copy —and why bother to copy such a thing,when anyone can go out on a summer nightand sit spellbound to the soundof the original? But […]

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