@silver_pen
LIMIT
Learning where you end is not the same as giving up / In every boundary, there is also the outline of your truth
NEW
Not yet arrived, but on its way to meet you in the open / Every new beginning carries the residue of every ending
NIGHT
Not quite dark when the curtains open / Insects against the window screen
AWE
All your certainties dissolve at once / When the world exceeds what you prepared for
TENDER
Touching carefully the fragile thing / Every gesture soft and slow
GUILT
Going back to every choice undone / Under every smile a quiet ache
GENTLE
Giving back the world its softest version / Each word considered before it lands
GALE
Gusting from the northwest off the sea / All the boats pulling hard at their moorings
DEW
Drawn from the night air onto the cold blade / Even the spiderwebs are jewelled at dawn
BIKE
Back out for the first time since January / Into the traffic with rusty confidence
COOK
Cutting slowly because the radio is good today / One pot and the whole kitchen involved somehow
FROST
First to find the puddle and make it glass / Riming the gate with silver overnight
LEAF
Loosening from the branch on a cold October day / Every color it holds was always in it
CLOCK
Caught between being late and not caring / Loud enough to interrupt a thought
CALM
Carried in the body like a practice / A breath returned to time and time again
WEEP
What the body keeps the tears release / Even stones, they say, have cried before
LILY
Long stalks bending over the pond edge / In July the whole surface is white with them
DIARY
Dog-eared pages from returning too often / Ink faded on the important days
RAIN
Running off the eaves into the barrel / A grey curtain softening the hillside
BLOOM
Breaking from its bud in the thin April light / Loosening the scent into the cooler air
OPEN
Offering yourself without defense / Pouring out what you usually guard
TOWN
Two o’clock and the square almost empty / Old pigeons with their old habits
GLEN
Granite walls on either side of the path / Larks somewhere above the cloud line calling
SEND
Something you carry was meant to move beyond you into the world / Every gift withheld is a loss that touches more than just you
TOWN
The same road taken on every errand / Our favorite route regardless of the destination
ADORE
A love that doesn't calculate the cost / Deep and quiet and entirely free
POWER
Presence without force is the most intimidating kind of power / Opening to what you already are releases what force cannot achieve
COOK
Calm returned by the act of chopping / Oil and garlic and the kitchen comes alive
BOOK
Back in the bag for the commute that didn’t happen / Open at the marked page and the mark made sense
JOY
Just beneath the surface, always ready / Opening to it is the hardest part
LEAF
Loosening from the branch on a cold October day / Every color it holds was always in it
APART
A distance between two things creates the space for understanding / Pulling back is sometimes how you see the shape of what you love
SLEEP
Slow day and the body agreeing early / Later than usual and catching up
DANCE
Dinner finished and the kitchen still warm / Arms lifted for no reason other than the beat
ACTS
Acting in the world is how the inner life becomes visible / Carried out fully, even the small act contains the whole person
DESK
Done with the day and still sitting in the chair / Everything needed somewhere on this surface still
LILY
Low in the water the lily pads spread wide / Its flower white above the dark below
LOST
Leaving the familiar is the price of finding anything new / Only when the map runs out does real exploring start