Awake in a House Wrapped in Sleep
Song Adrienne Rich You’re wondering if I’m lonely: OK then, yes, I’m lonely as a plane rides lonely and level...
For Those Who Have Far to Travel
For Those Who Have Far to Travel If you could see the journey whole, you might never undertake it, might...
Bald Eagle
Bald Eagle In less than ten seconds I fell in love with the eagle before it rounded the corner and...
Just Before Dawn
The Pinewoods Just before dawn three deer came walking down the hill as if the moment were nothing different from...
The Forest
The Forest by Nikita Gill One day when you wake up, you will find that you have become a forest....
March 2025 Readings
The Journey – David Whyte https://wordsfortheyear.com/2015/08/13/the-journey-by-david-whyte/ The Song of Songs, Verses 7:12-14 – The Shulammite (translated by Ariel and Chana...
Dazzle of Day
Dazzle of Day by Pablo Neruda Enough now of the wet eyes of winter. Not one single tear. Hour by...
How Each Day Is a Holy Place
Coffee House Poets They like to write where people are. They like a little noise with their silence. They want...
All My Body Calls
ALL MY BODY CALLS All my body calls for something in this sleeping earth we call the spirit. But how...
What the River Says, I Say
What the River Says, I Say Selections from a series giving voice to the spirit of place along the Methow...
There is meaning, intrinsic meaning, in every moment.