Tag Archives: faith
The Best Thing To Do
To lift each piece of mismatched furniture to sweep beneath is a risk to find faith in the ability to face the ache and relief and horror and acceptance of a mystery tragically solved.
Filed under Overnight Poems
Fragmented
Sappho’s poems. Nick Drake’s last songs. Tiger reserves. My memories, his, that pier over bay water. A hearse afloat. The underside of a bridge. One car on a train crossing this river. The moon most nights. Your love. My faith. … Continue reading
Filed under Morning Poems
December 24 (Day 2,593)
Half page ads peddle faith in 45-minute segments by the hour on two campuses. And a website to worship. A faltered blizzard reminds her of her own faith—how it works better without a forecast, without a Twitter account. Not a … Continue reading
Filed under Day Poems
Walden Ripple Effect
Until she loses herself to light in truncation, to upside down black and white photos of bridges— some smiles do turn down—till then, she will not find herself having faith in those infinite relations and figure eights swooning over sidewalks.
Filed under Morning Poems
