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Remembering Home

Your Sleepless Shadow

Turning to Light

Lost in the Unlimited

Being Here, Finally

Unquiet Dawn

Moon With Her Sail Full of Myths

Soft and Final Landing

Sacred Opulence

Moonset at Winter's End

Desolate and Perfect Now

Unfinished Invocation

An Audience of Stars and the Rest of It

Now and After the Reign of Galaxies

Liquid Heart

Rehearsal for Something Better

Startrail to the Absolute

Broken and Glorious Life

What to Pack For Your Departure

Rhapsody of the Realms

Irrepressible Flame

Vanishing in the Blazing Night

Beside the Still Fallen Sky

On the Trail Between Orchids and the Otherworld

Earth Cry

Some Things Beyond Dimension

Explorer in the Undivided

One Spark is a Galaxy

Unforgiven Rapture

Collective Dream

Now That You Are Infinite

Transcendence of Fury

What Little I Know

One With the Never-ending

Earthbound Supernova

The Majesty of Destruction

In the Infinite Now

Why We Love Dogs (A Little Something in Celebration of National Dog Day)

Postcards from Eons Past (Images from the James Webb Space Telescope)

Sanctuary of Flame

Microcosm

Glistening in the Dark

Walnut

Words Like Smoke and Sand

The First Iris

The Totality of You

Winter Meditation

The Language of Wonder

Storms of Jupiter

Digital Chains

Plunging to Heaven

On the Shores of Cepheus

Why We Love Dogs (A micropoem)

Ascension in Gold

Crucible of Light

In the Last Green Hours

The Angels of Hawksbill Mountain

Beyond the Gates of Orion

Sanctuary Within

Sitting With Stars

Light of the Tempest

Nucleus

Follow the Birdsong

Celestial Rite

One More Moon Beside Me

Legacy of Ash

Born in a Field of Light

Resurrection in Albemarle County

Dialogue With Silence

Moving Past the Dream

Deadly and Merciful Blue

Sky Full of Legends

On the Border of Earth and Being

Who You Really Are

Council of Stars

Scattered As One

Unfinished Bridge To the Infinite

Scenes from Within

Moon of Secrets

Memories of the Kingdom

In the Church of Ordinary Miracles

Finding Religion in Sperryville

Theater of Shadow and Light

Sapphire Birth

Web of Infinity

Voices from a Choir of Stars

Traveler in the Unseen

Into the Silence

A Soft Ascent

Through a Sacred Forest

 

Being Here, Finally



I left my wings
at the foot of
the mountain,
believing I had to climb—

That's what monks do
anyway on their
way to unchained bliss or
sweet oblivion—
half of me battling
the gravity of living,
the other half
diffused in an
opal sky

where I'm the
main attraction
or invisible,
depending on my whims,
where the sun
belts out tender
screams and
sirens of silk,
where imperishable calm
always wins

and I suspect
that whatever
is hiding behind
that foaming
screen above—
gold, angels,
living rivers—
is vapor compared
to the love
we will breathe.

But what about
right here,
right now?

I can't live
on soulgates
and clouds and
hereafters.

I'm still being born

and the temporary
looks quite solid
on the average
day and it
certainly
passes for real.

The field is
sprinting with its
grassy hair on fire:
sprays of lava,
cups of mist,
fluffs of sunset . . .

Everything I need
for at least
one clear moment,
but look closer . . .

There's a star,
possibilities, actually,
in the center of this
imperfect Now.

Another Now
and another and

finally the gift of
another day.


Patricia Joan Jones







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