Contents
Foreword
The Practice of Connection
Danusha Laméris, Small Kindnesses
Naomi Shihab Nye, Red Brocade
Shari Altman, Worry Stone for My Grandfather
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Kindness
Reflective Pause: The Soil That Is You
Kai Coggin, Into Wildflower Into Field
Laura Budofsky Wisniewski, A Beginner’s Guide To Gardening Alone
Heather Lanier, The Heartbeat of My Unborn Child
Mary Elder Jacobsen, Sponge Bath
Laura Grace Weldon, Most Important Word
James Crews, Only Love
David Van Houten, Breathe
January Gill O’Neil, Elation
Tricia Knoll, My Daughter Meets My White Pine
Julie Cadwallader Staub, Turning
Ingrid Goff-Maidoff, Peace Came Today
Kim Stafford, A Chair by the Creek
Danny Dover, Floodwood Pond
Ted Kooser, Filling the Candles
Mary Ray Goehring, Pinch Pot
Margaret Hasse, Clothing
Angela Narciso Torres, Chore
Reflective Pause: The Sacred Everyday
Twyla M. Hansen, Trying to Pray
Joy Harjo, For Keeps
Barbara Crooker, Sustenance
Ruth Arnison, Twenty Years of Longing
Danusha Laméris, The Heart Is Not
Laura Foley, Learning by Heart
Jacqueline Jules, Billowing Overhead
Penny Harter, Two Meteors
Tom Hennen, Made Visible
Cornelius Eady, A Small Moment
Zoe Higgins, Ode
Donna Hilbert, Credo
James Crews, Self-Care
Reflective Pause: Reassembling the Parts
January Gill O’Neil, Sunday
Laura Grace Weldon, Thursday Morning
Joy Gaines-Friedler, Touch
Heather Swan, On Lightness
José A. Alcantara, Divorce
Susan Moorhead, Shift
Tracy K. Smith, Song
Mark Nepo, Drinking There
Susan Musgrave, More than Seeing
Julia Fehrenbacher, The Most Important Thing
Julia Alvarez, Vain Doubts
Molly Fisk, Before I gained all this weight
Ross Gay, Thank You
Lorna Crozier, Small Lesson
Leah Naomi Green, The Age of Affection
Barbara Crooker, Forsythia
Karen Craigo, Last Scraps of Color in Missouri
Ted Kooser, It Doesn’t Take Much
Reflective Pause: Part of It All Again
Ellen Bass, The Thing Is
James Crews, Self-Compassion
Kelli Russell Agodon, Praise
Dorianne Laux, Joy
Jack Ridl, Take Love for Granted
Terri Kirby Erickson, Free Breakfast
Annie Lighthart, Passenger
Christine Stewart-Nuñez, Site Planning
Laura Foley, A Perfect Arc
Michael Simms, The Summer You Learned to Swim
James Crews, The Pool
Joyce Sutphen, Carrying Water to the Field
David Romtvedt, At the Creek
Reflective Pause: Would That Be Heaven?
Michael Kleber-Diggs, Coniferous Fathers
Zeina Azzam, My Father’s Hands
Li-Young Lee, Early in the Morning
Terri Kirby Erickson, Night Talks
Julia Alvarez, Love Portions
Kate Duignan, Grandmother
Todd Davis, Heliotropic
Marjorie Saiser, Everybody in the Same House
Lahab Assef Al-Jundi, Hot Tea
Gregory Orr, Morning Song
Annie Lighthart, How to Wake
Alice Wolf Gilborn, Wake Up
Alberto Ríos, Dawn Callers
Reflective Pause: A Welcoming World
Susan Moorhead, First Light
Faith Shearin, My Mother’s Van
Ada Limón, The Raincoat
Marjorie Saiser, I Save My Love
Lailah Dainin Shima, In Praise of Dirty Socks
Carolee Bennett, Exactly 299,792,458 Meters Per Second
Kimberly Blaeser, About Standing (in Kinship)
Rebecca Foust, Kinship of Flesh
Chana Bloch, The Joins
Heather Swan, Bowl
Reflective Pause: Where Beauty Is Honed
Natasha Trethewey, Housekeeping
Ted Kooser, Round Robin Letter
Sally Bliumis-Dunn, Mailman
Joseph Millar, Telephone Repairman
David Graham, The News of Love
Linda Hogan, Arctic Night, Lights Across the Sky
Alicia Ostriker, The Dogs at Live Oak Beach, Santa Cruz
Nancy Gordon, Rescue Dog
Dan Butler, New York Downpour
Richard Jones, After Work
Andrea Potos, Abundance to Share with the Birds
Fady Joudah, Mimesis
Rudy Francisco, Mercy
Naomi Shihab Nye, Kindness
Christine Kitano, For the Korean Grandmother on Sunset Boulevard
Reflective Pause: So You Are Here
Paula Gordon Lepp, Gas Station Communion
Annie Lighthart, A Great Wild Goodness
Ellen Rowland, No Small Thing
Jane Hirshfield, I Would Like
Peter Pereira, A Pot of Red Lentils
William Stafford, You Reading This, Be Ready
Connie Wanek, Come In!
Susan Rich, Still Life with Ladder
Alison Luterman, Braiding His Hair
Judith Sornberger, Love in Our Sixties
Susan Rothbard, That New
Susan Zimmerman, Get Close
David Axelrod, The Innermost Chamber of My Home Is Yours
Dave Baldwin, Summer Romance
Anya Silver, Late Summer
Judith Sornberger, Assisted Living
Patricia McKernon Runkle, When You Meet Someone Deep In Grief
Reflective Pause: Here to Listen
Megan Buchanan, Dream Visitation
Phyllis Cole-Dai, Ladder
Michelle Mandolia, The Thing She Loves Most
Marjorie Saiser, Last Day of Kindergarten
Gillian Wegener, Juvie Kid
Emilie Lygren, Make Believe
Brad Aaron Modlin, What You Missed That Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade
Reflective Pause: What You Missed
Dorianne Laux, On the Back Porch
Suzanne Nussey, Lullaby for an Empty Nester
Michelle Wiegers, Moving
Marie Howe, Delivery
Ray Hudson, Unbreakable Clarities
Danusha Laméris, Insha’Allah
Andrea Potos, Where I Might Find Her
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, The Question
Jacqueline Suskin, Future
Reading Group Questions and Topics for Discussion
Poet Biographies
Credits
Acknowledgments
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