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Monthly Archives: October 2018
For Indonesia Lion Air JT-160
For families who gather by the sea, adding their tears to its salt, we pray. For those who search, especially those who dive in difficult weather, we pray. For those who learn and share what went wrong, we pray. For … Continue reading
For Ntozake Shange (1948-2018)
Rest in dancing, rest in poetry, rest in your courage to face bi polar and addiction and a world that wanted to shed your words like the water of a hard rain. For I was pregnant when I first met … Continue reading
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Continuing Monday poetry sketches from Aotearoa / New Zealand
Ruatara Chapel Beyond the window the tide is out on long bay Okura, as it must have been at Oihi when the Ngā Puhi chief welcomed the first sermon to the land of the long white cloud. Nicky is here today … Continue reading
Prayer for Pittsburgh
God, we ask your presence among the death at the Tree of Life – for those shocked and mourning — find comfort-givers, for the wounded — healers, for the fearful who shelter in place — the fragile presence of phone … Continue reading
What I want to get in the mail
A funny birthday card that remembers my special day (preferably funny but not smutty) A sympathy cards to tell me how much someone I loved who has died mattered to someone else. Pictures drawn by small children in crayon or … Continue reading
Guest post — A Larry Trent Story
Larry Trent often lets me share the stories he writes about the people whom he meets in Los Angeles, in Mexico, in Arizona .. all the spaces he wanders seeking folks to help just a little … it … Continue reading
Transgender Remembrance Comes Early
The annual deep mourning that is Transgender Day of Remembrance is still a month away on November 20. Each year we mourn those who have been killed and wish that there were a year when there would be no names … Continue reading
More poem sketches from Aotearoa/New Zealand
Dog on the beach The woman who is his companion says, “he only chases waves and birds, things he can’t catch.” I know so many people like that, and for some of them it is the empty snapping of deep … Continue reading
Dear Misery,
Originally posted on A Poet's Vision:
Dear misery, you almost had me. I looked up and there you were circling, trying to rent the space in my head. I let out a sigh. You edging your way up, my…
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Prayer for Journalists
We thank you, God, for journalists, who set the image of a snake on a pole, so that we may all look and be healed, who are the jeremiahs, isaiahs habakkuks, of our times, for prophets have always called out … Continue reading
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