Space and Distance
You are the high tide
and low tide
I am undulating in the fullness of you.
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Tag love
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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This Love
This love, this
wide-angled panoramic,
even the peripheral can’t hold it all.
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Good Morning, Sunshine!
Every morning, without fail,
she put her depression and the misery of her marriage
in the broken dryer that stood in the kitchen
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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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Her Face Still Lights Up
I am only able to visit her now
about once every six weeks.
My eldest sister,
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May My Heart Be Open
May your heart be open
May your words be kind
May you see the face of god
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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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It Is Becoming Real
now that you have seen the first shadow,
when grief ungrounded and left skin too tender
for lighthearted banter.
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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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Don’t Be a Hater on Valentine’s Day
Rethinking it for those of us who are pissy about it. Valentine’s Day has always annoyed me. I mean, it’s been done already. The whole representation of the heart symbol for care and love and all the other good relationship…
Bleeding out the Wound
I found out today that my beautiful, 17-year-old niece
Has been cutting
Up and down the sacred arm
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