A Daily Dose of Poetry

A Hundred Falling Veils

• All Those Impeccable Plans I Made October 26, 2026
    I am throwing my arms opento the unstoppable forwardrush of time, the unrelentingflood of it, how it streamsthrough a moment and refusesto stop or go back. I see my well-made plan is like a finely carved wooden statue,precise in its every detail, perfectly conceived and utterly lifeless—an artifact.I toss it into the flow, watch it bobin the current like […]
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• Sometimes When We Read a Poem Together October 25, 2026
    I feel how the poem moves through us,less like a needle and thread that piercesand binds us, though that, too, but it’s more that the poem moves through us the way a wind swirls through a garden and carries the scent of each flower,charging the air with a perfume created by the whole, an ephemeral, alchemical sweetness that honors the essence of […]
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• Small Gift October 24, 2026
    When Sheldon, driving the car, turned to me as he parked and said, I will open the door for you,he must have sensed the norising in me because then he said, Please. So I sat there, wrestlingmy resistance to receiving help,and once again I felt inside me the stubborn two-year-old girl who told her mom, Do it self.But by the time […]
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• Even Though We Talked About Difficult Things, October 23, 2026
    the evening still bloomed with laughter,good food and singing,becoming ongoingly sweeter. Who could blame me for wanting it to last forever—or if not forever, at least for a few moments longer,and if not for a few moments longer, well perhaps I could just save a fewseeds of the pleasure, keep themintact like the small red jewels that hideinside a […]
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• When You’re Struggling October 22, 2026
    Meet me in autumn on Jumbo Ridge when the sagebrush is still in muted bloomand the air smells of juniper and coming rainand the cottonwoods below form a riotous golden ring of applause and the miraculousfeels so commonplace that we talk about weather—or we don’t talk at all—as if life is always stitched through with the undulating rhythm of magpies […]
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• Ongoing Love Story October 21, 2026
                    for Eric on our 31st Anniversary then you said, “you should move to Tellurideafter you get your degree,” and I said, “I was thinking of going into the Peace Corps,”and you said, “or you could move to Telluride,”and I said, “I don’t know about living in a resort,”and you said, “I live in a place so beautiful everyone in […]
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• This Prayer Inside Me October 20, 2026
    This prayer inside me for the riotous worldtrembles like a leafin the barest of breezes—almost unnoticeable, but …ask any leaf about how, when the time is right,it takes so little encouragementto let go of all it knows,and oh, the freedom then. The prayer thinks it knowswhat it wants. The breeze, it will dowhat it will do. 
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• No Regrets Summit: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life October 20, 2026
  Nov. 10-15Zoom, online, free I’m excited to invite you to join me for a remarkable free online event: No Regrets: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life, presented by our friends at HeartMind. During this shared experience, you’ll discover perspectives and practical guidance for navigating the profound questions that emerge in every human life: how […]
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• Interiority October 19, 2026
    There is a room inside where only I can travel,a room that is alwaysand never the same. When I find myself there, sometimes it is so quiet I hearthe space between stars.Sometimes, I meet a wisdom beyond whatI could ever know.And sometimes I hearright through a storyI have been telling myself.There is such delicious lightness then, as if a cloakmade […]
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• Reunion  October 18, 2026
   As if there is nothing more important to do,Mom and I play cards. For hours, we shuffleand deal and keep score. We scowl. We gloat.We shuffle and deal again. A portrait of my greatgreat grandmother looks down at us. She is a round-faced German woman with thin ovalspectacles. Her eyes somehow smile, though her lips do not. […]
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