Monthly Archives: October 2024

Toward Home

Posted on October 31, 2024 by sputterpub

When I return I’ll get to be alone.The only hum will come from bugs. I’ll burnsome time on streaming and my telephone,when I return. For solitude I’ve had the time to yearn.Companion comments have devolved to drone;the unintended resting-face is … Continue reading →

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Progress to Portland (ME)

Posted on October 30, 2024 by sputterpub

I’m noting scant diversity aboard.There’s sameness in the posture, heads, and skin.I haven’t seen expressions I’ll record,or heard an observation quick to spinmy mind through avenues that cast reward.But I am breathing salted oxygen,and filling with fall color softened gaze,alone … Continue reading →

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More Gullibility

Posted on October 29, 2024 by sputterpub

There’s unreliability in somedepictions of a character like mine(or yours as well). Describers may be dumb,or envious, or simply careless. Fineprecision isn’t usual. Combinethat with resenting any female grist,or family dynamics. I opinefrom sore experience, with sorrow kissed.

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Opposites

Posted on October 28, 2024 by sputterpub

So here’s the thing: she hums when she exhales,self-deprecating with complaining face.I’m opposite – my silence none assails,but I seem harsher than my thoughts embrace.Adopting patience now, receptive grace,no longer feeling adamant or stern,we each are our reverse. What’s more, … Continue reading →

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Back the Back

Posted on October 27, 2024 by sputterpub

I’m babying my neck and back today(though babies don’t ingest an oval pill).We’re relatively late to bus awayfrom Sydney’s pierage – 10 a.m. untilmid-afternoon, when we may start to sway.They warn a storm will blow and maybe spillsome Nova Scotian … Continue reading →

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Accidental Aphorism

Posted on October 26, 2024 by sputterpub

At table with four strangers, we engagedin pleasant conversation more or less.Amid strong personalities, none wageda war of words or politics. I guessa phrase was coined (by me, I here confess),to put in words a parent’s strategy:“I have their backs … Continue reading →

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Big Swells, No Signal

Posted on October 25, 2024 by sputterpub

Already quite relaxed, I didn’t mindthe interruption of the Internet.We’ve left the coast of Canada behindfor now, and though devices should be setan hour forward, Apple cannot findthe proper number, so I’ll just forgetall obligations while we plow the sea,and … Continue reading →

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At Sea

Posted on October 24, 2024 by sputterpub

I won’t complain about complaints I hear.I’ll try ignoring grimace, grunt and frown.There’s negativity imposing near,but nothing has occurred to bring me down.The views are water-colored, edged in brownof earth and hues of aging autumn leaves.The motion of the ship’s … Continue reading →

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From the Terrace (Montreal)

Posted on October 23, 2024 by sputterpub

At half past 3 I’m chased out of my roomby chambermaid a little late to clean.I don’t mind, though admit I did assumeshe’d make our beds before. But here the scene(14 floors up the air’s without a plumeof smoke from … Continue reading →

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Post-Covid Travel

Posted on October 22, 2024 by sputterpub

The last five years, I haven’t traveled far.I’ve never ventured out with easiness,and as I age considerations areincreasing. I have ways to calm the stress,but doubt I can extinguish it in full.No matter how I do, I can’t correctthe urge … Continue reading →

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