Beauty
The beauty in pain Comes from knowing it will end Like everything ends As he used to say when I Continue reading
The beauty in pain Comes from knowing it will end Like everything ends As he used to say when I Continue reading
We walk on bones and flesh The very soil beneath our feet Nothing so much as the carcasses Of worms Continue reading
Be careful If you reap my heart Don’t crush it on the threshing floor There is no chaff to set Continue reading
How far did you travel To get so smooth From what youthful perfection Were you broken down Then polished like Continue reading
My feet leave shallow pools in the damp strand Where narrow beach meets overlapping waves My shoes in my hands, Continue reading
The week begins again Stretching out before me Mondays are a bother They feel like the start of infinity Tuesday Continue reading
In my mind I am standing Standing Standing in the stairwell Of the old place I do this sometimes Stand Continue reading
I made a golden loaf of braided bread And soup from summer bounty filling basket Upon basket with the first Continue reading