Selected poems by
Joan Walsh Anglund

One seed can start a garden
One drop can start a sea
One doubt can start a hating
One dream can set us free

I have bravery to spend on pain
I have faith to wall up fear
I have courage to fight danger when it comes
But there is no defense against loneliness

A bird does not sing because he has an answer
He sings because he has a song

Loneliness speaks to lonelinedd
And though we mask ourselves
with words or silences,
Our needs leap out from all we do
and speak to those alike.

Sleep is a small death...
yet we do not fear it.
Sleep is a small death...
Does it tell us of a larger dream?