Inside My Daughters' Voice

She Will Not Be Quiet: A (mostly unedited) daily writing practice

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2/10/25

INSIDE MY DAUGHTERS’ VOICE

I was going to sit with myself 

this morning with hopes 

that a poem would arrive, 


but one daughter called three times, 

just to talk, the other daughter needed

help working through a hard breakup,


the dog needed her morning walk, 

the cat insisted 

on his Fancy Feast.


Even the sunshine was insistent,

reaching through the kitchen window

to invite me to walk in her warm, winter arms.


And then I remembered, 

I don't need to go looking for the poem, 

it is always here beneath my feet,


inside my daughters' voice,

in the dog's sweet eyes—


in the way life always 

gives me 

just what I need.

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