i take my glasses off
i take my glasses off it is the hard edge of things i am avoiding the separations so that i...
Each Moment the Only Moment, Ordinary Beautiful, Night Blossoms
Living The fire in leaf and grass so green it seems each summer the last summer. The wind blowing, the...
June 2026 Readings
Eagle Poem – Joy Harjo https://intrinsicheart.com/eagle-poem/ Aeneid, Book VI, lines 970-992 (Starting with “Long has my Soul desir'd this time,...
Ode to Enchanted Light – Where Breathing Is Prayer
Ode to Enchanted Light Under the trees light has dropped from the top of the sky, light like a green...
The Riverside Meadow, the Blue Lake, The Sweetness
A Meadow It was a riverside meadow, lush, from before the hay harvest, On an immaculate day in the sun...
I AND NOT-I
Only When I Am Quiet and Do Not Speak Only when I am quiet for a long time and do...
Silence
The reality that is present to us and in us: call it Being...Silence. And the simple fact that by being...
Perspective
Perspective And the mountains rose and eroded completely and the great sea flooded all and the great sea left and...
A Blessing Poem
A Blessing Poem The peace of loneliness be with you The peace of the far-from-home The peace of small things...
Beyond Cartography
Boulder Mountain We ask How did I end up here? or wonder why we don’t fit in our family. Later...
There is meaning, intrinsic meaning, in every moment.