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Luci Shaw
Luci Shaw (1928–2025) wrote more than 30 books of poetry and creative nonfiction.
The Morning Tree
—For Martina...
Coffee and Poetry
Reading a poem aloud with your friends,along with your eggs and coffee, is like eating...
The Bright Word
Some words, some narratives like birds with bright wing feathers, swoop into the mind, provocative, daring....
December—the 95th Year
Last night I lay awake and practiced getting old. Not difficult,
but I needed to teach myself to love my destination before I arrive....
The Quickening
Oh, then, on that spontaneous, light-filled day, the world will begin singing again after our dim, silent millennial waiting— ...
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The White Geese
Waiting has been, always, a discipline alien to me. Too often, impatience consumes me. I am a candle, its dark wick burning down too fast, ...
Enlightened
The impression of an impression—
a cloud like the wing of an angel, but
indistinct, and in ten minutes
shape-changed. This is how data reach us...
Looking up
Those starlings,
that crowd of black wings
patterning the noon sky,
flow along a highway invisible,
unknown to us, we without
wings, stiff, anchored,...
Little revelations
Perhaps we should consider stars as
outposts of heaven. But right here, on our own
lovely planet, the flickers of early light...