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.

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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

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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

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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.

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