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What I Tell My Heart (Poem)
throw ourselves fully into the days
fill ourselves with every gaze
no fear of what’s to come
each moment the only one
love does not depart a tide
one leap enough to be alive
though not here we never leave
one breath all we have to breathe
giving all gains forever
one note a symphony everlasting
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Winter’s Beneficence (Poem)
Outside, my tears will freeze.
Why not do this?
Bejewel my face with sorrow,
Diamantine drops fissured with loss,
Gauzy breath a mourning veil,
White with the purity of grief.
Frigid winter honors anguish,
Its elegiacal landscape befitting bereavement.
I bow my head in thanks,
And glittering gems fall to the ground.
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Sufficient Reason (Poem)
the day begins.
tears before I’m awake,
the absence of you an ache,
still I rise and open the door,
knowing that the day will greet me
if I allow it, and so I do.
this morning I saw treetops on the ridge
shine in golden glory within the early dawn,
a brief bright exultance in the winter’s gloom,
and thought, “this. this is enough.”
once I would have demanded more,
before you and the knowledge
that love is also a sudden flash of radiance,
unexpected in brilliance and depth,
gone in an instant.
I learned to hold beauty lightly with an open heart:
dancing snow drifting smoke daggered moonlight
entwine around my fingers and fall from my outstretched hands.
