Irrevocable Wholeness:
Poems and Meditations To Hold It All
Transformational Fires of Pain
Forgiveness
Forgiveness is not exactly
as you imagined
not a clean slate
no exoneration
A lifting
a ceremony of smoke
from dried cedar leaves
vanishes
Lacuna
Healing is the steady
shifting of seasons
the great wheel of life turning
and churning
forward
indiscriminate of
the ugly, the beautiful
the in-between
taking it all in
The body of the earth
with her thick dark soil
honors all that is given
The Grandmother of the World
A single song
can floor you then lift you up
as if by strings
until you levitate
and know you are held
(never alone)
in an invisible ocean
of Love