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A lone remaining leaf trembles in the early air like the one soft memory of how we met so many years ago. In the midst of all the noise and traffic,

As I stepped into the shuttle to the airport hotel, I noticed two women who were blind sitting with their canes upright like staffs or scepters from

Before we buy tickets, before we drive and park and fill the theatre, the dancer all alone closes her eyes and spins about the Axis of the Universe with

In my twenties, I lived under a veil of neediness that came from feeling unworthy.  I could never be certain that I was loved, and so I worked very hard

When walking, I thought  of all the legendary walkers:  of Plato wandering with his  students in his olive grove, of  Basho circling the island of Japan, 

In our seventies, we walk  the streets of New York  one more time, stopping  to watch a pigeon in the  turret of an old church.    A quiet miracle that

  Pluck a string on a harp  and let the note ring.     Already, you have a  memory of that note  and an imagination  of the next.    But you were only

  On this ordinary day, he woke with a terrible sense that something was missing. He dressed and sipped his coffee, but couldn’t shake the stir in

   Since we first saw a bison on the prehistoric plain and it seemed to stare back at us, we have turned everything into us. With the curiosity of a

  The drop of a glass brings us running  but we have to climb to see the view.     In this, the vow to love: to be there  when we break and to never stop