Suffering & Healing

A hole in a black blanket you tear wide open.
You’re cold, till you throw the blanket away,
and trust your own skin to guide you.

Meditation

catching thoughts
through a sieve
holding nothing
to be filled

The World's Not Falling Apart

I’m sitting in my office today
looking at a picture in sepia-
the sun’s white hair spilling through
black trees to touch the dead earth,
a bit of color on the ground as
plants thaw from the cold.

I ask myself what proof I have
that the world's not falling apart,
and all I have to give you is this-
a picture hanging in my office,
the one my brother gave me
the one I’d rather watch

instead of the evening news.

Meme

One word. She knocks on the door to my heart. ‘Meme.’

Translation: ‘Mummy or Mommy, can I stay? Forever?’

A little girl. One pure spirit. My daughter teaches me how to find my loveliness again.

And I will teach others.

Heart Healing

petals opening
blooming off-season
without the sun