Poetry
Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower
Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around…
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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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Poetry
Trail of Tears: Our Removal
With lines unseen the land was broken. When surveyors came, we knew what the prophet…
Poetry
When a Certain Word Comes to You
This morning it was fluency, the title of a poem I found in a book…
Poetry
A House Called Tomorrow
You are not fifteen, or twelve, or seventeen— You are a hundred wild centuries And…
Poetry
It looks like the sky is coming apart and together at the same time*
And the body is holding its losses like a fist. And a fleshy hope is…
Poetry
For Courage
When the light around you lessens And your thoughts darken until Your body feels fear…
Poetry
The Once Invisible Garden
How did I come to be this particular version of me, and not some other,…
Poetry
The Otters and the Seaweed
This is what you need to know: you need to know that otters wrap themselves…
