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Our ship through light and darkness - Joyce Sidman "Always at Home"

Bright chips of sunlight flung skyward - Joyce Sidman "Always Together"

And don the bright colors of scarlet and gold - Joyce Sidman "Ballad of the Wandering Eft"

Drops down from the echoing room of night - Joyce Sidman "Bat Wraps Up"

Who sing from a distant place - Joyce Sidman "Blessing from the Stars"

You are alone in your orbit - Joyce Sidman "Blessing from the Stars"

The thin wind of loneliness may howl - Joyce Sidman "Blessing from the Stars"

Suck the breath from your fire - Joyce Sidman "Blessing from the Stars"

See how many other hearts are burning - Joyce Sidman "Blessing from the Stars"

Our light in our vast, brilliant constellations - Joyce Sidman "Blessing from the Stars"

Find my place in this shifting world - Joyce Sidman "Blessing on the Curl of Cat"

Equally willing to purr or leap - Joyce Sidman "Blessing on the Curl of Cat"

Should misfortune bind your wings - Joyce Sidman "Blessing on the Downtrodden"

Fly before you to find us shelter - Joyce Sidman "Blessing on the Downtrodden"

Should your armor crack - Joyce Sidman "Blessing on the Downtrodden"

I will hold the pieces steady - Joyce Sidman "Blessing on the Downtrodden"

His fur hold the wind's breath - Joyce Sidman "Blessing on the Smell of Dog"

From the treasures he gathers so diligently - Joyce Sidman "Blessing on the Smell of Dog"

The warm scent buried like a promise - Joyce Sidman "Blessing on the Smell of Dog"

With fireworks, trailing fame and glory - Joyce Sidman "Come, Happiness"

Governed by mysterious principles - Joyce Sidman "Come, Happiness"

With a cool kiss of surprise - Joyce Sidman "Come, Happiness"

A breeze sucked in by eager lungs - Joyce Sidman "Come, Happiness"

Fill us with your splendid breath - Joyce Sidman "Come, Happiness"

The vast, breathing darkness of your realm - Joyce Sidman "Dark Emperor"

Dark Emperor of hooked face and hungry eye - Joyce Sidman "Dark Emperor"

Plunge down to deep worlds - Joyce Sidman "Deep Currents"

Flickering fish and swirls of tiny plankton - Joyce Sidman "Deep Currents"

Open my armored wings - Joyce Sidman "Diving Beetle's Food-Sharing Rules"

Within which everything is mine - Joyce Sidman "Diving Beetle's Food-Sharing Rules"

Do not forget what is mine - Joyce Sidman "Diving Beetle's Food-Sharing Rules"

Dry your wings in moonlight - Joyce Sidman "Fly, Dragonfly!"

Climbed from the shallows to don your dragon-colors - Joyce Sidman "Fly, Dragonfly!"

The sea belongs to giants - Joyce Sidman "Giants"

The gray ones that linger at wood's edge - Joyce Sidman "The Gray Ones"

Eyes of glass hooves of stone - Joyce Sidman "The Gray Ones"

A word hunting its own meaning - Joyce Sidman "He"

Climb a hill where the sky is wide - Joyce Sidman "Heartless"

As darkness wraps me in its arms - Joyce Sidman "Heartless"

Throw a few stones into the belly of the night - Joyce Sidman "Heartless"

Shout to flush the brooding crows - Joyce Sidman "Heartless"

The rhythm of your own heart's disquiet - Joyce Sidman "How to Find a Poem"

In the sideways glance of morning - Joyce Sidman "I Find Peace"

In the flashing arms of a crowd - Joyce Sidman "I Find Peace"

Had loosened their grip on the world - Joyce Sidman "Illness: A Conversation"

We are gathering clouds instead - Joyce Sidman "Illness: A Conversation"

We are waiting for every last tear - Joyce Sidman "Illness: A Conversation"

The one whose hands are full of sky - Joyce Sidman "Illness: A Conversation"

A secret, silent, sparkling sight - Joyce Sidman "In the Almost-Light"

Berries grown on the vines of night - Joyce Sidman "In the Almost-Light"

Jewels of dawn in the cool night's breeze - Joyce Sidman "In the Almost-Light"

Last breath, last sight of light - Joyce Sidman "Into the Mud"

Slows to its winter rhythm - Joyce Sidman "Into the Mud"

Melting each frozen bone - Joyce Sidman "Invisibility Spell"

Soften to one smooth horizon - Joyce Sidman "Invocation for Sandcastles"

Building things that don't need to last - Joyce Sidman "Invocation for Sandcastles"

Fear in my back pocket - Joyce Sidman "Journal of 73 Seconds"

To drink the air and taste the sun - Joyce Sidman "Lake's Promise"

In dizzy rings of clouds and sky - Joyce Sidman "Lake's Promise"

Around my deep unchanging heart - Joyce Sidman "Lake's Promise"

That showed me the world aslant - Joyce Sidman "Lament for My Old Life"

Finally ready to give that old life away - Joyce Sidman "Lament for My Old Life"

Whose eyes sand through the dark - Joyce Sidman "Lament for Teddy"

Whose scent swallowed all nightmares - Joyce Sidman "Lament for Teddy"

Drank in secrets and wonderings - Joyce Sidman "Lament for Teddy"

Huddled in our buds waiting to bloom - Joyce Sidman "Letter to the Sun"

The only ones still singing are the frogs - Joyce Sidman "Letter to the Sun"

That is when my heart thaws - Joyce Sidman "Listen for Me"

A vast swirling sea of lava - Joyce Sidman "Long Memory"

Unfolds like a primrose, pale and scented - Joyce Sidman "Love Poem of the Primrose Moth"

Another eternity of sunbeams - Joyce Sidman "Moon's Lament"

From vast pale networks underground - Joyce Sidman "The Mushrooms Come"

Ancient cities built on cliffs - Joyce Sidman "The Mushrooms Come"

Eat your triumphs, eat your mistakes - Joyce Sidman "Night-Spider's Advice"

To remake the world each night - Joyce Sidman "Night-Spider's Advice"

A thousand crickets scream my name - Joyce Sidman "Oak After Dark"

To stand while all the seasons fly - Joyce Sidman "Oak After Dark"

To anchor earth, to touch the sky - Joyce Sidman "Oak After Dark"

The pale pewter path of the trees' parting - Joyce Sidman "Riding a Bike at Night"

Cool scarves of air whipping past - Joyce Sidman "Riding a Bike at Night"

Wading into the river of forgiveness - Joyce Sidman "The River of Forgiveness"

Folded close beneath whisker and chin - Joyce Sidman "Shhh! They Are Sleeping"

Forget anything you ever wanted - Joyce Sidman "Sleep Charm"

And swim, shimmering, into the dream beyond - Joyce Sidman "Sleep Charm"

Through all its dark and absent hours - Joyce Sidman "Sleep Charm"

And spin into whorls of light - Joyce Sidman "Snail at Moonrise"

My heart waits for direction - Joyce Sidman "Song in a Strange Land"

A rooster has found the dawn - Joyce Sidman "Song in a Strange Land"

Out through the door of my own shadow - Joyce Sidman "Song of Bravery"

Of plunging deep, I have no fear - Joyce Sidman "Song of the Water Boatman and Backswimmer's Refrain"

Hide down deep where the sun is not - Joyce Sidman "Song of the Water Boatman and Backswimmer's Refrain"

Among the weeds I'll always be - Joyce Sidman "Song of the Water Boatman and Backswimmer's Refrain"

We who glide along the surface - Joyce Sidman "Starting Now"

Feel the currents of each other's lives - Joyce Sidman "Starting Now"

Weave for each other a garment of brightness - Joyce Sidman "Starting Now"

The tangle of truths through which we must weave - Joyce Sidman "Teacher"

Bring forth all galloping things - Joyce Sidman "Time Spells: I. (To Speed Up)"

Shatter and scurry with the pounding of feet - Joyce Sidman "Time Spells: I. (To Speed Up)"

Love scarlet adore pink thrive on orange - Joyce Sidman "Ultraviolet"

All of you who crawl and creep - Joyce Sidman "Welcome to the Night"

You who make the forest sing - Joyce Sidman "Welcome to the Night"

A feast of sound and spark - Joyce Sidman "Welcome to the Night"

The hollow reverberating with shock - Joyce Sidman "When Death Comes"

A terrible gulf between before and after - Joyce Sidman "When Death Comes"

Poised in endless possibility - Joyce Sidman "Where Is My Body?"


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