March 2018
I am finally remodeling the beach house I moved into almost twenty years ago. I hope to hear the sound of waves above the saws and hammers. My family, poetry, my long-running workshop, and my standard poodle are the passions of my life and keep me eager to meet each day. Gravity: New and Selected Poems, my eighth collection, is forthcoming in spring of 2018.
Note: I don’t actually pray beyond thanks to a force I can’t begin to hold in my head, but I do try to meditate, about which I have learned a great deal from my dogs.
Note: I don’t actually pray beyond thanks to a force I can’t begin to hold in my head, but I do try to meditate, about which I have learned a great deal from my dogs.
Animal Zen
Tula the poodle
doesn’t move or make a sound.
So still, she seems a piece
of garden kitsch.
And from the neighbor’s porch
a statuary cat stares back.
They are content, it seems,
to serve one another
I and thou
subject and object
of meditation.
This is the now.
This is the suspension of time.
And, I can’t help but wish
for a focus so intent, intense
for a symbiosis so benign.
from Gravity: New and Selected Poems
©2018 Donna Hilbert
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