Memo to Self: Ten Reasons for Love
1. Go ahead and fill your life with love
Let it be hot cocoa in February
Make it water from a cold outdoor spigot
When mama Gaia turns up the burning heat
2. Let it spill over the bucket of your brain
3. Everyone has the same destiny so why not
4. Make yourself ready
by swimming in the pathless ocean of love
until you cannot
5. They say God loves a shattered heart
and also a soft one and a wild one that sparkles
6. Float on your back and watch the fleeting clouds
let your hair float around you
kick gently
move your arms a little
breathe in and let the ocean support you
loving you because you are its child
7. Love is unreasonable
8. Once when someone asked me if I could make a
poem of two words, I said why not.
9. Here is a beguiling instance of love:
the low registers of the humpback whale-song
traveling ten thousand miles through the ocean
to anyone with ears like another whale
10. Sometimes what God loves is a heart of steel
sometimes God loves horror movies and splatter movies
I cannot love him I can love his bride
of many names
