When the Spirit Starves
There was a time I was severely hypoglycemic, and the pattern went like this. I would think, I’m hungry. Then that “I’m hungry” would get repetitive, more insistent, screaming so loud that it was all I could hear, until it…
Tag longing
Unforbidding
I thought that speaking truth,
that unforbidding the forbidden would
ease the hard pull of craving…
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Even This
A new year is coming.
We thought, back then,
by now,
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I Am the Desert Flower
Violence on the screen
in sharp contrast
to the sharpened senses,
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Space and Distance
You are the high tide
and low tide
I am undulating in the fullness of you.
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Eradicating Evidence
Being in your perfect house
I am acutely aware of my own
imperfection.
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It Is Easy to Love Broadly & Generally
It is easier to love broadly and generally,
to see the face of God in every being,
to keep the details at a distance like when you kind-of
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My Heart is a Ten-Pound Brick
My heart is a 10-pound brick.
It lays heavy in my belly like the chocolate chip cookies,
brownie and carrot cake I ate today,
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Love Under The Lean-To
I try to keep love under the lean-to;
give it just enough light so that it does not wither, but
not quite enough to fully bloom because
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Last Night, While I Was Sleeping
Last night, while I was sleeping far from you,
my heart was growing
bigger.
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Thick Soles
Sometimes,
deeper than my need for change,
underneath the practice of nonattachment
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Away
Emaciated
bones and need prominent.
I mask it in the voluminous clothing of patience and silence until
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