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Saving the world

May 27, 2017May 20, 2017 ~ Rachel McAlpine ~ Leave a comment
pink-pipe-tutu
Pipe in a pink tutu

Since you got cancer,
your roles are reversed.

Joy of living is your job,
saving the world—your hobby.

How to meet the void

May 21, 2017May 28, 2017 ~ Rachel McAlpine ~ Leave a comment

rose

  1. Avoid the void.
  2. Void the void.
  3. Implore the void.
  4. Embrace, revere, explore the void.

pic & poem by rachel mcalpine cc-by-2.0

Spirituality is not

April 29, 2016April 25, 2016 ~ Rachel McAlpine ~ Leave a comment

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Spirituality is not
a gift shop.
Not yodelling or mazes
or crystals or church.

A reluctant noun,
it would rather be
a private verb,
a silent move
like go or flow
or sting or stray
or love.

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Rachel McAlpine

A sandwich by moonlight

March 9, 2016January 29, 2016 ~ Rachel McAlpine ~ Leave a comment

shrine

A sandwich by moonlight
is not enough.

You need speckled linen shirts.
You need a bolt of lightning.

You need to jump on a fault line
very soon.

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Rachel McAlpine

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