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What I really want to say is
Sometimes, and especially when I am in the kitchen, the words I love you slip from my mouth of their own accord, unruly, rejecting all boundaries of…
 • Sarah Howard Lapine
Return
So here you are. No longer wanting, but returning to this space pregnant with emptiness. As if the cosmos itself decided to birth a new sun inside your…
nothing wanted
Morning light through cloudy glass warms the vinyl tablecloth, illuminates the steam rising from her coffee. Every morning, buttered toast, made from…
 • Sarah Howard Lapine
Listen
What do you hear with that long ear of yours?
 • Sarah Howard Lapine
Held
As she lay there in the silence of intention, the layered wings lifted from her back, dissolving into light and releasing her from the weight of her…
 • Sarah Howard Lapine
fragile
It seems to separate us; you on one side, me on the other. Yet when I peer through to see your face, I am surprised by my own reflection. How easy it…
 • Sarah Howard Lapine
Tides
She's traveling across the sky you know. You can see her now, wandering with the clouds. And your mind, it became her pathway, your heart her map, your…
 • Sarah Howard Lapine
It's been done before
It's probably, certainly, maybe all been done before. And Rumi, I'm sure, did it best. And yet we continue to try, to share, to elucidate this golden…
 • Sarah Howard Lapine
Stealing Beauty
She's stealthy when she's stealing quickly reaching for the light on the floor quietly holding the lilt of a voice breathing in words that seem more…
 • Sarah Howard Lapine
Slowly
The thing is you're just not very fast- at anything.
 • Sarah Howard Lapine
Levity
When I forget that it is both, levity is lost, and all I can see is the stark contrast of my heart which never was meant to have defined edges.
 • Sarah Howard Lapine
Botany
I've read the books, the ones that explain the mechanics of plants, of the ways in which water, light, and nutrients synchronize to allow for growth…
 • Sarah Howard Lapine
Gathering Quiet
Gathering Quiet
poems + compositions on finding pause in the everyday
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