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Tag: absence

Posted on November 23, 2025November 20, 2025

The Leaving

the parts
no longer there
filled in by memory

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Posted on December 29, 2024December 18, 2024

A House For The Wind

racing in and out
the doors and windows
opened by absence

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Posted on November 18, 2023November 5, 2023

Those Polka Dots

the leaves give a lingering goodbye
small parts already departed
their absence a bittersweet embellishment

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Posted on November 6, 2023November 5, 2023

In The Presence Of Departures

as leaves are leaving
the tree’s structure emerges
written in colors
a poetry of absence

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Posted on October 29, 2022October 25, 2022

Combinations

this morning held everything
each possible
presence and absence

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Posted on July 13, 2022July 8, 2022

The Missing Windowpane

if handled very tenderly
absence can sometimes make a space
for sweetness to enter

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Posted on May 1, 2022April 28, 2022

Lonely For Spring

the wind
still has no leaves
to speak with

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Posted on January 8, 2022December 31, 2021

The Space That Absence Holds

it is
the place
where love remains

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Posted on November 16, 2021November 7, 2021

In Autumn Light

we begin to see
the definitions
made by absence

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Posted on May 28, 2021May 24, 2021

In Absence Presence

away and yet
with everything
a link in divinity’s chain

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Posted on December 30, 2019December 27, 2019

Winter Light


illuminating absences
and the infinite detail
of what is left behind

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Posted on January 12, 2015January 8, 2015

Absense

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in the absence of leaves
branches alone
uphold winter’s bitter blue

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Posted on November 16, 2013

Morning Mountains

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thin November air
diluting colors
amplifying absences

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