Making Way

Making Way

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NOTHING HAPPENS
(a full moon poem)
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Letting Go/Staying Here
A few days ago on the beach, in the half to blinding sun, I walked past a dead otter.
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Taking My Own Advice
My daughter turned fourteen this month and a letter I wrote when she turned three resurfaced, as it does each year and likely will in all those that…
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Winged Things
The birds make a nest in the steer skull that hangs from the north facing beam of the front porch.
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What Women Do
(and will keep doing)
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More Noise, Please
(and some things I find beautiful)
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What Do You Do When the Big Sad Comes for You?
(on finding yourself in unexpected ways)
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Making Way
Making Way
Telling stories, talking about hope.
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