the beautiful foolishness of things

168

2012-01-02T10:54:00.004-05:00

and there were even times
when all that she could taste
was the bliss of an empty bowl of tea.

167

2011-11-25T14:47:00.001-05:00

her hesitation too
brought forth worlds.

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166

2011-10-17T16:23:00.001-04:00

and there were those too
who often without realizing it
took seat upon the remnants of light.

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.

165

2011-09-19T21:06:00.001-04:00

those who remained with lowered gaze
had the opportunity to realize that their shadow
and hers were always one.

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.

164

2011-09-12T16:28:00.000-04:00

she wavered gently between,
so that one always had the choice
whether to drift or drown.

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.

163

2011-09-07T18:15:00.000-04:00

she forgot no one—
even the animals
traced her absence.

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.

162

2011-08-20T09:39:00.001-04:00

unassuming
all flowed into her.

.

161

2011-07-08T15:47:00.001-04:00

some sought within.
others sought without.
neither, however, seemed to notice
that limits themselves could be luminous.

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160

2011-06-06T17:00:00.001-04:00

"1...2...3..." silently, to themselves,
they counted how many steps it would take
until they would be washed away.

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159

2011-04-25T13:31:00.001-04:00

by withdrawing she would
allow one to trawl
the otherwise inaccessible.

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158

2011-04-20T11:50:00.002-04:00

obscure,
her crossings.

the most sure
forever indiscernible.

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.

157

2011-03-09T09:15:00.001-05:00

she could only ever be seen
not by those who ceased looking,
but rather by those who exhausted it.

156

2011-02-13T17:49:00.000-05:00

the abyss too
was a bridge.

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.

155

2011-01-15T11:02:00.000-05:00

like her,
the world returned
their awe.

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.

154

2011-01-05T09:24:00.000-05:00

unfolding
she veiled herself
in herself.

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.

153

2010-12-26T17:22:00.000-05:00

her offering
was the simplest
and most natural:
that the world
would disappear
into itself.

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.

152

2010-12-05T15:50:00.000-05:00

for those who were able
to maintain a certain confidence
even the desolate wake of her absence
would be fertile.

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.

151

2010-12-04T16:35:00.000-05:00

each leaf
whether of tree
or speech
was but a withered sun.

150

2010-10-22T15:37:00.000-04:00

she always entered silently,
or so it appeared
for there were those who claimed
that she never left.

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.

149

2010-08-29T18:19:00.002-04:00

for those that knew her
bathed in light was not just an expression.

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.

148

2010-06-26T09:14:00.002-04:00

those who were truly familiar with her knew
she would brook no compromise;
there were only two options:
either all would have thrones or none.

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147

2010-06-24T09:55:00.000-04:00

she cleared her shelf of all its contents.
then put them back one by one
until it was empty again.

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146

2010-05-29T22:36:00.000-04:00

others were never sure
whether she vanished within things,
or if it was things that vanished
within her.

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.

145

2010-05-28T09:10:00.004-04:00

wherever the sky settled,
she would gently tread her path.

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.

144

2010-03-11T09:55:00.000-05:00

there were those, frail,
whose sustenance
was but the pale pollen
of her silence.

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.

143

2010-02-19T10:02:00.000-05:00

her world being liquid

they could bathe there,

and emerge unsullied.

142

2010-02-14T11:44:00.002-05:00

she would linger
—long before
and long after.

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.

141

2010-02-10T08:50:00.002-05:00

though her garden

was luminous,

the things of this world
drew sustenance
from the dark.

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140

2010-02-05T10:20:00.000-05:00

for those she favoured,

she would reveal herself
in the gaps and chiasms
of the everyday.

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.

139

2010-01-31T12:17:00.000-05:00

her vulnerability
was indestructible.

138

2010-01-27T10:38:00.002-05:00

the barest of glimpses
would suffice.

137

2010-01-21T09:10:00.001-05:00

in her world, infinity
was just a matter of course.

136

2010-01-13T21:01:00.001-05:00

comfort was not
to be found
in memories,
but in remembering.

135

2010-01-12T12:57:00.001-05:00

the precious
and the inconsequential
were both delicately poised
within her gaze.

134

2010-01-07T14:04:00.000-05:00

even the barren bore fruit
—perhaps only the barren...

133

2010-01-03T20:34:00.003-05:00

humbled,
as all inevitably were,
eventually each had little choice
but to bow their head;
only to discover,
there beneath their feet,
the radiance long-sought
that had, until then, been denied.

132

2009-12-30T15:50:00.001-05:00

when wandering
through her gardens,
being overwhelmed,
few ever noticed
that her flowers
didn't seek the light
—they manifested it.

131

2009-12-24T20:32:00.002-05:00

unable to count all the world's sorrows
she turned to counting its joys.

130

2009-12-22T09:56:00.001-05:00

not needing words
she would inscribe
all the world's joy and suffering
upon trembling waters.

129

2009-12-18T09:28:00.001-05:00

if lost
often she could be found
lingering between things,
less two shores than a gulf
within which she would idle
in wonder.

128

2009-12-16T09:13:00.001-05:00

another of her secrets,
of which there were many and few,
was for each to remain
the light entwined.

127

2009-12-13T20:11:00.002-05:00

caught in a web of crystal
the butterfly of her thoughts
had ceased to tremble.

126

2009-12-10T20:45:00.004-05:00

into each outstretched palm
she would drop a seed;
which they would then bury
in their own personal dark,
and from which unfurled
the blossoming light.
its roots, however,
would remain invisible,
thrust deep into the loam.

125

2009-12-08T19:02:00.003-05:00

unbound herself,
she reflected all equally;
though one would only need
to dip beneath the surface
to be free of any illusion
—even that of one’s prison.

124

2009-12-06T21:00:00.001-05:00

even those who felt trapped
could thrive;
for the dark, too,
was but another facet
of her light.

123

2009-12-03T20:21:00.000-05:00

multitudes,
both as a whole
and each individual separately,
could be held in a single embrace.

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.

122

2009-12-01T20:24:00.001-05:00

all things
were bathed
in the glow
of her desire.

.
.

121

2009-11-29T20:36:00.002-05:00

one of her many secrets was that the refuge sought
by those who felt the need to withdraw
was actually no other than that readily granted
to all those who remained immersed in the everyday.

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.

120

2009-11-26T20:59:00.000-05:00

being boundless,
many had the impression
that she was homeless.

yet her door was always open
—even to them.

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.

119

2009-11-24T21:23:00.001-05:00

hers was a familiar darkness.

.
.

118

2009-11-22T20:58:00.002-05:00

by hiding,
she revealed herself.

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.

117

2009-11-20T11:48:00.002-05:00

some found it necessary to weather the storm
when the light rained down in a torrent,
and so sought shelter in the shade.
others, even if blinded, remained
until sodden with light.
and then there were those rare few
who seemed to be washed away
as easily and completely as their shadows...

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.

116

2009-11-17T20:40:00.000-05:00

of course there was a beyond.
yet it could only be found
by scrutinizing those things,
so often overlooked,
lying close at hand.

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.

115

2009-11-15T20:05:00.000-05:00

the errant too
would stumble upon her,
though unknowing
they often remained.

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.

114

2009-11-14T08:31:00.003-05:00

there was never any need for tears
for the earth wept skyward.

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.

113

2009-11-12T19:58:00.002-05:00

resting in her shadow,
it was the little things
which tended to be
the most certain.
.
.

112

2009-11-10T20:25:00.001-05:00

some spoke of having met her once,
others of their closeness and familiarity,
yet it was the mute who tended to provide
the surest glimpse.

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.

111

2009-11-08T21:24:00.001-05:00

wherever her gaze fell
another altar would be found.

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.

110

2009-11-05T21:32:00.000-05:00

the fearless discovered
that there was no shore—
she would always remain
fathomless
and without horizon.

.
.

109

2009-11-03T20:58:00.001-05:00

for some life became so overwhelming
that they resorted to pleas
which they mistakenly thought were left unheeded;
while the fortunate simply realised
that the sky was an answer in itself.

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.

108

2009-11-02T11:51:00.003-05:00

unbounded
by the lines of existence,
she would always remain.

.
.

107

2009-10-29T21:05:00.000-04:00

before those who least expected it,
it was in her nature to swell
in the spaces between.

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.

106

2009-10-28T05:51:00.002-04:00

each thing
was but the shadow
of her care.

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.

105

2009-10-25T21:28:00.001-04:00

one could never tell
on which side of the fence
her garden stood.

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.

104

2009-10-22T19:25:00.004-04:00

yielding,
she would achieve
the unachievable.

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.

103

2009-10-20T20:17:00.003-04:00

when mute
the murmur of the leaves
would give voice
to the unspeakable.

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.

102

2009-10-18T20:15:00.002-04:00

for those haunted
by the spectre of their tears
each sob was an unintended prayer,
which she would string upon a garland
of the most beautiful sorrow.

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.

101

2009-10-15T21:01:00.001-04:00

cradled by the gentlest of glances
her sleep bore countless unseen suns.

.
.

100

2009-10-13T19:34:00.004-04:00

her nudity a mirror,
the world became her attire.

.
.

099

2009-10-11T20:56:00.002-04:00

she could always
be found dangling
at the end
of each breath.

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.

098

2009-10-08T21:45:00.000-04:00

there was no sadness
when looking at the past,
only the fine mist
that is the present.

.
.

097

2009-10-06T20:35:00.001-04:00

her unknowing
was delicate and white,
and often took the form
of the palest tenderness.
.
.
.

096

2009-10-04T20:32:00.000-04:00

to know her
was to become
ever more gentle.

.
.

095

2009-10-01T22:21:00.000-04:00

hers
was the dawn
of all things.

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.

094

2009-09-29T22:18:00.001-04:00

often the easiest and simplest thing
was the most difficult of all:
to accept grace as freely as it was given.

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.

093

2009-09-27T21:10:00.001-04:00

even when soiled with purity
she would remain untainted.

.
.

092

2009-09-24T20:41:00.000-04:00

enfolded
the worldless too
would dissolve.

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.

091

2009-09-22T20:48:00.004-04:00

though many came to her
solitary and alone,
there were also those
who came to her through another,
no matter how lowly
—even if only a shadow.

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.

090

2009-09-21T09:31:00.003-04:00

wherever her gaze fell
dreamless nights were found.

.
.

089

2009-09-17T23:57:00.003-04:00

assuming it remained
unhoped-for,
nothing was unattainable.

.
.

088

2009-09-15T22:46:00.001-04:00

it wasn't that she left traces,
or made signs,
but that all became
offering.

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.

087

2009-09-13T20:55:00.000-04:00

no door was closed to her,
even to the darkest of spaces,
though few had the courage
to join her there.

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.

086

2009-09-10T20:50:00.000-04:00

her ways so gentle
that not even perfect stillness
would reveal them.

.
.

085

2009-09-08T23:59:00.001-04:00

there were also those
who withered into the light.

.
.

084

2009-09-07T09:12:00.002-04:00

each step
was either from,
or toward,
a more luminous
dark.

.
.

083

2009-09-03T23:59:00.002-04:00

even the lost
were never abandoned.

.
.

082

2009-09-02T00:01:00.003-04:00

some had to
learn
how to allow.

others merely had to
surrender
to her caress.

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.

081

2009-08-31T11:52:00.000-04:00

the greatest care
was required,
so that things
might remain
incomplete.

.
.

080

2009-08-28T09:05:00.001-04:00

the secret,
for those who watched her closely,
was to cradle both
what is and what isn't.

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.

079

2009-08-26T07:50:00.001-04:00

all her nights were liquid,
so that one might bathe
in the dark waters
of unknowing
or take comfort
in her reflection.

.
.

078

2009-08-23T22:00:00.000-04:00

with dreams hidden
beneath wings
painted in the pure
tones of the void,
unknowing
a butterfly
pollinates the garden
of her sleep.

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.

077

2009-08-21T00:00:00.000-04:00

with blue sky for roof
and the horizon for walls
each cup an ocean.

.
.

076

2009-08-19T00:00:00.000-04:00

her love
being so vast,
pity remained
unknown to her.

.
.

075

2009-08-17T00:00:00.000-04:00

when all the gardens
have been razed,
and the fields of wildflowers
are all but ash,
she will be left with offering
the shadow roses
that grow in her veins.

.
.

074

2009-08-14T00:00:00.000-04:00

each word
that crossed her lips
was first bathed
in the unsaid.

.
.

073

2009-08-12T00:00:00.000-04:00

she placed
the occasional sign
along the path,
so that we
might be reminded.

.
.

072

2009-08-10T00:00:00.000-04:00

weary,
we came to rest
in the mundane.

.
.

071

2009-08-07T00:00:00.000-04:00

by knowing her,
even truth
was no longer
needed.

.
.

070

2009-08-04T21:12:00.000-04:00

those who couldn't be alone
found themselves in the strongest light;
one from which even their shadow
could find no respite.

.
.

069

2009-08-03T07:42:00.001-04:00

countless upturned palms,
offering their light to the sun.

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.