The Sea Accepts All Rivers & Other Poems
By Judy Brown
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The Sea Accepts All Rivers & Other Poems - Judy Brown
Copyright 2016 Judy Brown.
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PREFACE
NOTICING
Beginnings
Wooden Boats
Dead
Seeing Complexity
Sorrow
Hoarding Pain
Circles
The Other Shoe
Connection
Traps
Just Human
Invisible
Trough
Our Music
Stop It
The Universe Says
Underneath the Porch
Again
CREATING SPACE
Emptiness Invites
Fire
To the People In My Lost Calendar
Sabbatical
Lost File
The Walk
The Recluse
Alone
Leadership Like Symphonies
Fishing
The Arborist
Ceremonies
Vast Sky
Rest
Snow Days
SHIFTING PERSPECTIVES
When Did the Weather Shift?
Dialogue and Measurement
Invitation
Startings and Endings
Bridges
If You Were Sick
Shouting Yes
Airborne
Which It? Which They?
Time
Apple Wood
Sometimes
Moth
The Sea Accepts All Rivers
Companion
SPEAKING TRUTH
Luminescence
Stop Dancing
Now
Easier
Truth
Answer
Sign
Synchronicity
Garden
Crosswise
Stories
Moved
Trapeze
Progress
Heard
Somewhere
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
My thanks to those who helped create this book of poetry: my daughter, Meg, for the clear eyes and wisdom of the young, my friend and colleague Steve Hill for his beautiful front cover picture, my associate, Lorna Fltzqerald Morris and my colleagues Peg Paul and Sheila Gibson at the original publisher Miles River Press, and those many friends, members of my extended family, colleagues and even strangers, whose presence has drawn these poems from me, convinced me that they find use in them, and encouraged me to publish them. This book belongs to you all. And to my