WARM
With you, the cold becomes a thing remembered / A fire that needs no wood, just your presence
RAIN
Running off the eaves into the barrel / A grey curtain softening the hillside
LAMP
Lamp on and the evening begins properly / A different kind of light than the rest of the day
PEAK
Pushing through the cloud into open air / Everything below arranged in miniature
GOAL
Going toward something specific makes the going feel like sense / Only a direction gives the motion something to become
FILL
Fullness is not something given from the outside in / In what you choose to let into your days, your life takes shape
LAUGH
Loose and sudden, no apology / A gift the body gives without a reason
WAVE
Walking into it we lose our balance / Again and again it arrives without asking
DEW
Done in the night before we were awake / Every grass blade weighted with a globe
ZEAL
Zeroing in on purpose like an arrow / Each moment burning with the love of work
WARM
Wrapping someone in a gentle word / Arms that open without question
MEAL
Made from memory and from what remained / Every ingredient doing more than expected
GROW
Giving yourself permission to be different from what you were is growth / Real becoming is uncomfortable and necessary and ultimately worth it
YEARN
You open windows on the absent days / Each familiar corner holds a ghost
TEA
Taken at the window while the rain decides / Every warmth starting here before going anywhere
ROOM
Radiator ticking in the corner / One window facing the neighbor’s wall
CAFE
Cup refilled without being asked here / A long Tuesday afternoon filling itself in
NEW
Not yet arrived, but on its way to meet you in the open / Every new beginning carries the residue of every ending
BRAVE
Breaking through the wall of doubt / Rising even after the fall
WIND
Wandering through the ancient pines / It carries seeds to faraway hills