To the Canada Geese Who Live in Oakland

A bit lighter

I feel weighted down by the world these days. There’s so much heartache and disappointment and frustration and as much as I try not to fall into the rabbit hole of news, it’s still there. I feel it, a heaviness in the air. Like we’re all on the edge of a precipice, the world itself even, and sometimes I can fly over the void and some days I fall into it.

So I decided to keep it simple this week and a bit lighter. This is a poem I wrote quite a while ago. It was first published in the SoMa Literary Review.

I wish you all a day filled with at least a few moments of laughter.

This week I was particularly struck by

Petra Hernández

’s essay on

Petra Glyphs

. She celebrated a birthday this week and wrote a lovely essay about a walk she takes each day and about time passing and getting older. I highly recommend it. I wasn’t a subscriber but now I am.