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1.
Changing Everything
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I was walking again
in the woods,
a yellow light
was sifting all I saw.
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in the woods,
a yellow light
was sifting all I saw.
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Rebus
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You work with what you are given,
the red clay of grief,
the black clay of stubbornness going on after.
Clay that tastes of care or carelessness,
clay that smells of the bottoms of rivers or dust.
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the red clay of grief,
the black clay of stubbornness going on after.
Clay that tastes of care or carelessness,
clay that smells of the bottoms of rivers or dust.
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The Heart's Counting Knows Only One
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In Sung China,
two monks friends for sixty years
watched the geese pass.
Where are they going?
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two monks friends for sixty years
watched the geese pass.
Where are they going?
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The Task
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It is a simple garment, this slipped-on world.
We wake into it daily - open eyes, braid hair -
a robe unfurled
in rose-silk flowering, then laid bare
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We wake into it daily - open eyes, braid hair -
a robe unfurled
in rose-silk flowering, then laid bare
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Da Capo
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Take the used-up heart like a pebble
and throw it far out.
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and throw it far out.
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The Weighing
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The heart's reasons
seen clearly,
even the hardest
will carry
its whip-marks and sadness
and must be forgiven.
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seen clearly,
even the hardest
will carry
its whip-marks and sadness
and must be forgiven.
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Metempsychosis
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Some stories last many centuries,
others only a moment.
All alter over that lifetime like beach-glass,
grow distant and more beautiful with salt.
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others only a moment.
All alter over that lifetime like beach-glass,
grow distant and more beautiful with salt.
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8.
Standing Deer
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As the house of a person
in age sometimes grows cluttered
with what is
too loved or too heavy to part with,
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in age sometimes grows cluttered
with what is
too loved or too heavy to part with,
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