The Most Daringest Thing

Is looking straight
into your eyes
the daringest thing
I have ever
done?

Perhaps.
Yes.

Because not turning
away from your eyes
roots courage and
now I look
into my own
eyes.

And I don't
turn away from
these soul windows.
Which is precisely
the same daringest
thing.

Perhaps.
Yes.

Prayer Leaves

The leaves
fall like
prayers, filling
my spiritual
inbox with

messages from
my teachers

and as
the rusted
yellow and
burnt red
soften into
the grassy

fingers of
the earth

my heart
expands into
the soil
of my
own body

with a
knowing gratitude
that is
the surest
and gentlest
confidence I

have yet
to know.