Susa Silvermarie's Blog

Your cells know very well that the breakdown is proceeding Your heart knows very well that it is this you came for. We know this season is not random. We work our prayer, the labor of evolving, pouring into the world the power of our presence. With its tumult and disorder, the season of communal
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Though my poet’s country is the world, I rejoice to reside in Mexico, where same-sex marriage is welcomed, and gender parity in every election is enshrined and enforced in law. Mexico, where abortion is legal, food that’s genetically engineered is banned, and our president is female. Though my country is the world, I rejoice to
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on Black Friday Every drop of water that you drink today, and bathe and wash and cook with, and use to clean and flush and scrub; the water in your cells and tissues, organs, the water falling on your head in lovely rain, the water flowing underneath the ground; the water lifting up, invisible in
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My mouth hunger begs me for the whole plate of cookies or my neighbor’s to-die-for brownies, why did she give me four! or the rest of the popcorn that I covered up but now again uncover. My mouth hunger doesn’t do vegetables but certain sweets, or a carb like spaghetti or bread, or jasmine rice,
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More beauty than I could ever think to ask for, on this one more morning I awaken, at my door. My desires not yet large enough to hold the poems of owl’s steady eye, or robin’s song that stirs ajar my heartdoor. Tender touch of passing cloud lifts me to awareness, like tiny sighted hands
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All the hours of your life, birth to the final breath, carbon- rich air departs from your lungs, every breath furnishing just what the plants want. The gas exchange taking place in your alveoli has given back to the atmosphere, in every place you have ever breathed, just what you must expell, kindly making room
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I wanted to watch us get old, you at my side, until we both unstiffened, our strength more and more pliable. I looked forward to it, each of us mitigating, moderating, gentling. It isn’t what unfolded. Still, I bless and imagine you there across the globe, your new someone at your side, easing your armor
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I. I was new, an immigrant only months arrived. I’d come in the store with tears in my eyes, and confessed to the clerk, that the carpenter, months after his promise, still hadn’t started the desk of my dreams. She took off her apron in the bulk food store, and marched me to the carpenter’s
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Let me live present as a Robin my every song unrehearsed. My little body filled to the brim with attentiveness. No room left for  before, or for after. I want even my silence to ring with awareness. Present as a Robin, every breath here.                   ©Susa Silvermarie
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Is it because we forgot to listen to bird language? Is it because we think anthropologists considering humans and their cultures, is different from situating the birds in their habitat, the environmental condition collaboratively created by birds and all the animals, the intricately woven tapesty? Is it because we are growing human children who are
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