The necessity of joy / James Crews --
Hope / Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer --
Dandelion / Ted Kooser --
Promise / Barbara Crooker --
At the age of 18 : ode to girls of color / Amanda Gorman --
In any event / Dorianne Laux --
Astral chorus / Laura Grace Weldon --
My daughter's singing / Garret Keizer --
Surprise breakfast / David Romtvedt --
The facts of life / Ron Wallace --
Fifteen years later, I see how it went / Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer --
The newborns / Kathryn Hunt --
Shells / Christen Pagett --
Bus stop / Laure-Anne Bosselaar --
Hoodie / January Gill O'Neil --
Angel / Terri Kirby Erickson --
Thankful for now / Todd Davis --
Reflective pause : the joy of presence --
Autism poem : the grid / Barbara Crooker --
Kindergarten studies the human heart / Diana Whitney --
Valentine's day / Gail Newman --
In gratitude / Abigail Carroll --
Held open / Michelle Wiegers --
Listening for your name / David Graham --
Another day filled with sleeves of light / Heather Swan --
A cure against poisonous thought / Annie Light Hart --
Forgiveness / Mary McCue --
Two weeks after a silent retreat / Heather Lanier --
Reflective pause : the kingdom at hand --
Today, when I could do nothing / Jane Hirshfield --
Red thyme / Laura Ann Reed --
The once invisible garden / Laura Foley --
Down to earth / James Crews --
Old friends / Freya Manfield --
Let it rain / Brad Peacock --
Against panic / Molly Fisk --
Over the weather / Naomi Shihab Nye --
Notions / Paula Gordon Lepp --
Any common desolation / Ellen Bass --
Reflective pause : returning to the world --
Language, prayer, and grace / Mark Nepo --
The fish / Jane Hirshfield --
Reincarnate / Patricia Fargnoli --
Innocence / Linda Hogan --
Everything is made of labor / Farnaz Fatemi --
Apple blossoms / Susan Kelly-DeWitt --
Growing apples / Nancy Miller Gomez --
Aspen / Danusha Laméris --
With trees / Margaret Hasse --
Shelter in place / Kim Stafford --
Missing key / Heather Newman --
Climbing the golden mountain / Michael Kiesow Moore --
To see it / Laura Foley --
Unclouded vision / Jacqueline Jules --
Improvement / Danusha Laméris --
Reflective pause : grateful for small victories --
After spending the morning baking bread / Jack Ridl --
Radiance / Wally Swist --
Morning / Kristen Case --
Wedding poem / Ross Gay --
Pledge / Jehanne Debrow --
Amores perros / Angela Narciso Torres --
In the dark / Penny Harter --
A candle in the night / Nathan Spoon --
Praise of darkness / Francine Marie Tolf --
An essay on age / Judith Chalmer --
Easter morning / Ted Kooser --
The cardinal reminds me / Andrea Potos --
When life seems a to-do list / Marjorie Saiser --
Moon / Lahab Assef Al-Jundi --
Because the night you asked / Crystal S. Gibbins --
September swim / Rob Hunter --
What to do / Joyce Sutphen --
Any morning / William Stafford --
Reflective pause : pieces of heaven --
How it might continue / Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer --
From blossoms / Li-Young Lee --
Motherhood / Jessica Gigot --
Wondrous / Sarah Freligh --
Summer apples / Cathryn Essinger --
Third year of my mother's dementia / Lynne Knight --
In the company of women / January Gill O'Neil --
Leaning to the light / Alice Wolf Gilborn --
I watched an angel in the emergency room / Andrea Potos --
When giving is all we have / Alberto Ríos --
Offering / Albert Garcia --
Too many to count / Alison Luterman --
If I carry my father / Marjorie Saiser --
Weather / George Bilgere --
Work / Sally Bliumis-Dunn --
Reflective pause : the joy of making --
Goldfinches / Danusha Laméris --
The lesser goldfinch / Connie Wanek --
The word / Tony Hoagland --
Tomorrow / Barbara Crooker --
Quail hollow / Cynthia White --
Compost happens / Laura Grace Weldon --
Part of the landscape / Joan Mazza --
Essential gratitude / Andrea Potos --
Reflective pause : the gratitude list --
Gratitude list / Laura Foley --
The dog body of my soul / Katherine Williams --
Scratch, sniff / Katie Rubinstein --
Summer cottage / Mary Elder Jacobsen --
Coming home at twilight in late summer / Jane Kenyon --
Perceptive prayer / Grace Bauer --
Sap icicles / Patricia Fontaine --
The lesson of the falling leaves / Lucille Clifton --
A dervish of leaves / Ted Kooser --
Winter morning / James Crews --
The good life / Tracy K. Smith --
Thanksgiving for two / Marjorie Saiser --
Reflective pause : the feast of each moment --
Nest / Jeffrey Harrison --
Getting into bed on a December night / Ellen Bass --
Everybody made soups / Lisa Coffman --
Darkest before dawn / James Crews --
There doesn't need to be a poem / Tess Taylor --
Wingspan / Amy Dryansky --
Eagle poem / Joy Harjo --
What matters / Terri Kirby Reickson --
In love with the world / Mark Nepo --
Reading group questions and topics for discussion --
