Status Updates From A Thousand Mornings: Poems

Imagine Verdi or Mahler
every day, all day.
It would exhaust anyone.

Oh the house of denial has thick walls
and very small windows
and whoever lives there, little by little,
will turn to stone.

And I suggest them to you also, that your spirit grow in curiosity, that your life be richer than it is, that you bow to the earth as you feel how it actually is, that we—so clever, and ambitious, and selfish, and unrestrained— are only one design of the moving, the vivacious many.

THREE THINGS TO REMEMBER

As long as you’re dancing, you can break the rules.

Sometimes breaking the rules is just extending the rules.

Sometimes there are no rules.

You fuss over life with your clever words,
mulling and chewing on its meaning,
while we just live it.