Poems

I · The Doorway

welcome, and the whole of it, gently

• The Book For Giving
• Still Lighting the Way
• The Great Compassion
• Yesmile
• The Second He Comes

II · The Honest Dark

the turn toward doubt — the bare table, the rut — and the turning

• The Long Table
• Looping Home

III · The Widening

outward, to neighbor and home and table and country

• One Open Hand
• The Givening
• I’m Never Free By Myself
• Food For God
• Co-Creator Conspiracy
• Light the Way
• Family Home

IV · The Quiet Center

the still point — time, the Tao, the mystics’ now

• Deserving It All
• Quantum Understanding
• Positively 4th Grade
• Here For You
• No Time At All / All The Time
• Miracles Breathe Free
• Tao Jones
• Peaced Together
• Hippie Dreams
• Wing Sleep
• Paradise for Moriarty
• Ever Beginning
• The Sleep Walk
• The book begins…
• Different than Before
• Way to Go
• Get Shown the Light

V · The Turn Toward You

lineage, gratitude, the handing-on, and the bow

• What You Came For (The Crown)
• Jesus Smiled (The Cornerstone)
• The Gift (The Bow)

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