cat ~/poems/*.txt

Short Verse

Short verse, written in the margins of everything else.

rootwater.txt

1 Even the mud

2 has somewhere to go

3 when it feeds a flower.

late-library.txt

1 The lamps go out

2 one aisle at a time,

3 and I keep reading anyway.

half-finished.txt

1 I have loved things

2 before I understood them.

3 This is one of those.

constant-bloom.txt

1 Not grown yet,

2 not nothing either,

3 just bud, and waiting.