You want to be
in two places at once,
or two strong people
each want you
in their places.
Something about this
rips out your lungs.
Though you have two,
they’re connected.
Breathe,
until you settle
all where you are.
Tag: expectations
Things the Buddhist Teacher Said Would Teach Me to Separate Perception and Reality
Love is the direct opposite of anger.
Trying to locate a rainbow,
you are only disrupting
particles of light.
Sit and feel the fly
move on your skin.
Friday the 13th, on a Full Moon
comes and goes like normal.
I don’t trip on the stick
lying across the sidewalk,
and I don’t miss my bus,
which is also running
a few minutes behind
its daily schedule.
All of us here making
our own peace within
the shoulders of time.
Finally, Mid-January
There’s a burst of wind,
maybe a laughter of it,
and the light tickle of snow
we’ve watched these months,
expecting white, finally
becomes a full window snow:
every bit from the ground, the eaves,
the unpruned bush with a few dry leaves
lifted at once.
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