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Daniel Lusk

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Daniel Lusk is an American poet and teacher, author of eight poetry collections and other books. A native of the prairie Midwest, he now lives in Vermont.

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This folio of my poems from KIN (Wind Ridge Books 2013) appears in the January 2026 edition of Live Encounters Magazine.

—Meditation

This is a holy place.
Mud people
keep the wind in pots.

It is the porcupine
in his quill robe,
the moose in his crown,
who made it holy.

See the star tracks
where the grouse walked,
unhurried, in the snow.

See the moss on the path
we swept free of leaves
and branches,
the moss covered stone.

Rain falls,
the pail and bowl
are filled with water.

We might have used it
to water the seedlings,
or for bathing ourselves.

(c) Daniel Lusk

https://liveencounters.net/2026-live-encounters-editions-2026/daniel-lusk-meditation/

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