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Where Love Lives

The sun is a shy lemon
peeking from behind a curtain
before disappearing.

All I want to do is lift away,
live in that weightless place
where gravity has no claim on me,
where lightness is my name.

All I want to do is bend back down
into dust and mud, savor how stones
absorb sunlight and become radiant,
until heaviness is my name.

I see that I am always both:
I am stone, weight, gravity.
I am angel, feathered, floating.
Love lives in the wonder
of the in-between, the longing
for all possible worlds,
the way sunlight explodes
its lemon tartness in my mouth,
the way sunlight lingers
at the heart of every stone.

*By Christine Valters Paintner from the collection "Love Holds You: Poems and Devotions for Times of Uncertainty" published by Paraclete Press.

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from Sound and Stillness II: An audio collection of poems by Christine Valters Paintner, released December 14, 2022
By Christine Valters Paintner from the collection "Love Holds You: Poems and Devotions for Times of Uncertainty" published by Paraclete Press.

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