Three Poems: Buddhist Poetry Review

This post will be significantly less ranty than my last one, because I have good news to share: three of my poems were published by the Buddhist Poetry Review this month! They are The Drive To Work, The Teachings of Tea, and Year After Year After Year. Please check them out here!

The last one, Year After Year After Year, I wrote much of in my head while walking on the farm this fall. It's got a walking kind of pace to it. Imagine yourself hiking up a hill saying to yourself, "a little taller, a little broader, a little more rooted," with your footsteps falling on tall, broad, and root. It is a celebration of incremental growth, which I think we all need to embrace during a stressful time in history. During droughts trees form a new ring, just a smaller one. We're all growing right now, even if it doesn't feel like it.