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The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Sharing

It’s all borrowed anyway.

This notebook can hold
another week of my poems.
But I’m already thinking ahead
to the fresh pages
of a pristine notebook
and to which color cover will
complement the coming season.

When I lived in liminal space
little could distract me
from the myriad miracles
unfolding right in front of me.

Yet now that I’ve returned
to the world of relationships
I plant myself willingly into
the fertile soil of community,
so that I may exchange
my gifts with others
as I continue the journey
along life’s winding road.

Uncertainty,
anticipation,
impatience
are all ways to describe
my hunger and urgent desire
at the start of each day
to share my life.

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