☀️ The Daily Boost #887

Shining is where they touch

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SMALL POEMS FOR THE WINTER SOLSTICE: I
Margaret Atwood

A clean page: what
shines in you is not nothing
though equally clear & blue

and I’m old enough to know
I ought to give up wanting
to touch that shining.

What shines anyway?
Stars, cut glass, and water,
and you in your serene blue shirt

standing beside a window
while it rains, nothing
much going on, intangible.

To put your hand
into the light reveals
the hand but the light also:
shining is where they touch.

Other things made of light:
hallucinations & angels.
If I reach my hands
into you, will you vanish?

(My thanks to Margaret Atwood, via A Poem a Day.)

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