Grace

7/6/2007
Before dinner.
Sitting quietly.
Why is this important? Food.
Life. Energy. People
sharing the gift of life and sustenance
There don’t need to be words.
You can feel it.
No one knows what she says.
Float Plane
June 2002
There’s a
willful focus
on the local news
—
be
polite clear
and honest
and there’s
the bridge
—
the elegant
long necked goose
whose distinctintive
call would later
guide me home
when at first
it seemed only a greeting
—-
and another
letting me know
I’ve traveled
—–
the morning
burns off
the contour
of the land
leaving
a relief map
of moisture across the sky
——
It
is
always
a great moment
emerging upon
the open water
——-
The Day
June 2002
It is
not my responsibility
to
recreate it
It is my
responsibility to navigate
it
——–
sense of people
talking freely
not noticing
someone is
in the room
the light is
fuzzy
she’s wearing shorts
———
the dawn
is
silent
by the lamp
on the bed table