Author Archives: sputterpub

New Beginning?

Posted on February 9, 2023 by sputterpub

It’s not too late to make a new beginning,although the year commenced a month ago,and dawn is past, and I am old, I know.I have no goals for trophies – I’m for winninga little better health: a way to slowthe … Continue reading →

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Ordinary Dreams

Posted on February 8, 2023 by sputterpub

They may be the effect of stuttered sleep.Deleting cannabis could be a cause.But I am dreaming nightly, and I keepthe memory of many scenes. I pausein rise to consciousness, from nothing deep –I surface from a shallow pool. No clawsor … Continue reading →

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It’s Mostly Not

Posted on February 7, 2023 by sputterpub

It’s mostly not an age-related ill.She’s ancient but her memory’s not shot.Her hatred’s from no side-effect or pill.It’s mostly not. If you remember vigor, you forgotshe tapped it from a fountain of ill-will.She never laughed. She didn’t hug a lot. … Continue reading →

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Videophilia

Posted on February 6, 2023 by sputterpub

When he was 1, his interest in the worldso notable, his gaze reminded meto see the trees and flowers that unfurledbefore our eyes, the sights so gorgeouslyavailable, resplendent, magicallyarrayed. Too soon a screen kidnapped his mind.He couldn’t tear his eyes … Continue reading →

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Appreciation (A Pushkin Sonnet)

Posted on February 5, 2023 by sputterpub

Existence seems a precious state of being –a rare and lucky possibility,with creatures capable of somehow seeing,to finite age before mortality.I wasn’t born an ant (and that’s appealing) –I’m able to sense consciousness and feeling.I wasn’t doomed to be a … Continue reading →

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1991

Posted on February 4, 2023 by sputterpub

A 2 raised to the power 5 resultsin tallied years since they had their affair.For 10 days then, two middle-aged adultsconversed, exposed, laid every detail bare.Outgoing both, they’d neither had a sharein any love so easy to convey.And though since … Continue reading →

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Other People’s Problems

Posted on February 3, 2023 by sputterpub

I bought the cottage 15 years ago.Its genesis in 1944was guest room in the yard, where it won’t show,behind a single-family shingled house.A college town, the place would undergoprogression into flats to rent, then buy.An H.O.A. of 5 at last, … Continue reading →

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Brain Draft

Posted on February 2, 2023 by sputterpub

Accused of thinking she knows everything,she’s smart enough to know that isn’t so.With every step of knowledge furthering,she glimpses how much farther she could go.And when she tries suppressing signs she’s bright,she fails to pull the bushel really tight.The lumens … Continue reading →

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Tints & Tones

Posted on February 1, 2023 by sputterpub

He saw the world in color, but his coursewas black & white cartoonish absolutes.His superheroes had explosive forceand all his villains acted thorough brutes.A man’s a man, and alpha is preferred;a woman misbehaving is a bitch.And so it stood until … Continue reading →

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I Don’t Agree

Posted on January 31, 2023 by sputterpub

I don’t agree with classic gender roles.They always seemed irrelevant to me.A human first, ignoring separate goals,I don’t agree. Of course I understand biology,but skeletons and muscles aren’t souls,and consciousness connotes some liberty. Simplistic attitudes are full of holes,and fundament … Continue reading →

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