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"This is beautifully written! I love this at times almost poetic style that is also very accessible. On a different note, it reminds me of about everything I've ever disliked/dispised about organized religion, colonialism, and white people behavior." — May 08, 2026 09:46AM
"This is beautifully written! I love this at times almost poetic style that is also very accessible. On a different note, it reminds me of about everything I've ever disliked/dispised about organized religion, colonialism, and white people behavior." — May 08, 2026 09:46AM
“I have come Here to have the protection of your laughter.”
― The Lady's Not for Burning
― The Lady's Not for Burning
“Listen. This is the noise of myth. It makes the same sound as shadow. Can you hear it?”
― New Collected Poems
― New Collected Poems
“All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself.”
― The Carrying
― The Carrying
“Praise the light of late November,
the thin sunlight that goes deep in the bones.
Praise the crows chattering in the oak trees;
though they are clothed in night, they do not
despair. Praise what little there’s left:
the small boats of milkweed pods, husks, hulls,
shells, the architecture of trees. Praise the meadow
of dried weeds: yarrow, goldenrod, chicory,
the remains of summer. Praise the blue sky
that hasn’t cracked yet. Praise the sun slipping down
behind the beechnuts, praise the quilt of leaves
that covers the grass: Scarlet Oak, Sweet Gum,
Sugar Maple. Though darkness gathers, praise our crazy
fallen world; it’s all we have, and it’s never enough.”
― Radiance: Poems
the thin sunlight that goes deep in the bones.
Praise the crows chattering in the oak trees;
though they are clothed in night, they do not
despair. Praise what little there’s left:
the small boats of milkweed pods, husks, hulls,
shells, the architecture of trees. Praise the meadow
of dried weeds: yarrow, goldenrod, chicory,
the remains of summer. Praise the blue sky
that hasn’t cracked yet. Praise the sun slipping down
behind the beechnuts, praise the quilt of leaves
that covers the grass: Scarlet Oak, Sweet Gum,
Sugar Maple. Though darkness gathers, praise our crazy
fallen world; it’s all we have, and it’s never enough.”
― Radiance: Poems
“I know
you don’t always understand,
but let me point to the first
wet drops landing on the stones,
the noise like fingers drumming
the skin. I can’t help it. I will
never get over making everything
such a big deal.”
― The Carrying
you don’t always understand,
but let me point to the first
wet drops landing on the stones,
the noise like fingers drumming
the skin. I can’t help it. I will
never get over making everything
such a big deal.”
― The Carrying
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