2 poems from my new book: untying the web, out April 1!

new year begins

why stand on the shore
putting one tremulous toe
after another into the flowing river
    
the horses are chomping up my garden
just because it is there
and the stellar jay cheers them on
from naked branches of the cherry tree


in the darkness

if trust means anything at all
it is the healing balm
that soothes the heart
stretched to its limits
urging it
to sit quiet
with no opinion
and no contraction

  pb 2012