Held secure

Folded in hug  

Like You cradled Moses in the cleft of the rock 

You are so much bigger than me

You are safe to hold me 

With all his doubts and all my fears 

You comfort me 

I can be small 

Your love holds me secure  

Dwell

9/7/23 Dwell

Your presence 

Abide and belong 

Snugly home 

*a new series inspired by NY times Wordles

Await

9/3/23

Await

A wait so 

long the weight was an 

appendage 

Await

Anticipating 

To arrival: decades of

Longing;  fulfillment  

*New series: haikus inspired by New York Times Wordles  

Re-align

The margins have switched sides 

What else will be realigned?

(Right to left, left to right)

Walking into the sunrise

Never arriving at a vantage, you must go further, further East 

I, however, found a school garden 

Bees rambling amongst the English lavender, wormwood, clary sage, flamevine, oregano, weeds

And untended compost bins breeding flies 

Summer neglect; school is starting this week 

“The traffic will be crazy” they say, with kids back riding the bus, and all the parents chauffeuring 

It’s a rhythm each year, navigating the beginnings, the anticipation knotting in your stomach 

Grief succoring in my waking darkness 

To long for something deeply 

Must mean something; a growing attachment, blossoming with hope,

I tell the drifting bee of my West-ward longing

What is life but darkness before chasing the rising.