Tagged: compassion
equal depths between
equal depths between
indifference and resistance
means something else wins
.
20220721:1825
y
the housefly that spent
the housefly that spent
a day with us indoors felt
faint, dragging its wings
until daddy felt sorry,
captured it to let it out
.
20210826:1904
y
because you brought home
because you brought home
the starling, broken-winged or
broken-legged, and nursed
it back to health, there will be
other starlings, carrying hope
.
20210414:2039
y
we are a handful
we are a handful
of traditions away from
tolerating one
another, another handful
from some kind of understanding
.
20201205:0845
y
perhaps the eighth most
perhaps the eighth most
dangerous thing for a spider
in the shower is
a girl without her glasses
on – compassion plays no part
.
20200229:1511
y
when it is just clear
when it is just clear
enough, we can
see ourselves
in one another. when
it is just muddy
enough, we may
see each
other in ourselves
.
20190628:2139
y
** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: enough
because we live
surely time must have
surely time must have
a heart, meeting us again
and again right here
.
20160128:0741
y
this morning, grating
this morning, grating
ginger – a small cut, blood for
blood – yesterday’s dead
cockroach haunting me. i pretend
this makes us at all even
.
20150326:1015
y
the two cockroaches
the two cockroaches
i killed on friday morning
had families – it’s
only right and compassionate
that i poison the others
.
20150315:1310
y
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