The Gem
I dreamt that you gave me
a gem hidden in your heart.
When I woke, I felt your love
move through me the way
sun parts a cloud.
I have looked for the gem
in the folds of the world,
and thought I saw it in the
young woman helping the
old man off the bus, and
in the jogger rushing to lift
the girl who fell off her bike.
I’m certain I felt it in the
morning light in a corner of
one of Monet’s paintings of
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the Rouen Cathedral, and
in the slow chords of Keith
Jarrett’s music.
Now, I try to place the gem
in the dream of those I love
and those I don’t yet know.
I try to remember that
we are part of a net
that is barely seen
but felt everywhere.
This is from my book of poems, The River of Already.
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