GOAL
Going toward something specific makes the going feel like sense / Only a direction gives the motion something to become
CORE
Centering in what is most essential is a daily practice / Out beyond all the peripheral is what you actually are
GRACE
Giving more than is required / Resting easy in forgiveness
WEEP
What the body keeps the tears release / Even stones, they say, have cried before
FIELD
Foxes crossing at the far end in the grey / In the late July heat the combine starts
CURVE
Coming around the bend reveals what the straight road kept from you / Understanding that the path winds is not the same as accepting delay
TIDE
Tracing its old path across the sand / In the pools the small crabs wait it out
DOOR
Doors are only problems for the ones who need to stay put / Out beyond the threshold waits everything that is not yet yours
PEAK
Patience is what it took to get this high / Every breath up here costs a little more
TENDER
Touching what was hurt with careful hands / Every nerve still raw and reachable
DAWN
Dreams dissolved by the six o’clock alarm / Already light when I thought it would be dark
CLOCK
Constantly noticed when you wish it wouldn’t be / Louder than it should be in the quiet
BREAK
Breaking open is not the same thing as being destroyed / Returning to your shape after the shattering is not the same shape
WAVE
Washing over everything we thought was final / And then retreating as if nothing happened
STORM
Spending itself against the coast all night / The morning quiet sharper for the contrast
RAGE
Running past the point where calm was possible / A wall of heat across the chest and throat
LONELY
Longer evenings stretching into quiet / Out there, others carry the same silence
BREAD
Baked until the kitchen smells like home / Rising slow through the cool morning
FAITH
Finding footing in the fog / Ascending past what reason sees
ALWAYS
A truth held over time reveals its permanence in the holding / Lasting things do not require proving every time they are questioned