LAUGH
Loose and sudden, no apology / A gift the body gives without a reason
WAVE
Walking into it we lose our balance / Again and again it arrives without asking
DEW
Done in the night before we were awake / Every grass blade weighted with a globe
ZEAL
Zeroing in on purpose like an arrow / Each moment burning with the love of work
WARM
Wrapping someone in a gentle word / Arms that open without question
MEAL
Made from memory and from what remained / Every ingredient doing more than expected
GROW
Giving yourself permission to be different from what you were is growth / Real becoming is uncomfortable and necessary and ultimately worth it
YEARN
You open windows on the absent days / Each familiar corner holds a ghost
TEA
Taken at the window while the rain decides / Every warmth starting here before going anywhere
ROOM
Radiator ticking in the corner / One window facing the neighbor’s wall
CAFE
Cup refilled without being asked here / A long Tuesday afternoon filling itself in
NEW
Not yet arrived, but on its way to meet you in the open / Every new beginning carries the residue of every ending
BRAVE
Breaking through the wall of doubt / Rising even after the fall
WIND
Wandering through the ancient pines / It carries seeds to faraway hills
NIGHT
Not quite dark when the curtains open / Insects against the window screen
DARE
Doing the thing that everything in you resists is where growth lives / A life of only safe choices is still a life slowly made smaller
ANEW
Another beginning is possible from any point along the way / Not every fresh start requires a new geography or new face
CYCLE
Coming around again is not the same as not having moved at all / You carry in the returning something the first time did not have
DESK
Done with the day and still sitting in the chair / Everything needed somewhere on this surface still
MOVED
Moments that undo the controlled self / Opening to what you thought you had locked