Category Archives: Poetry

True Fiction

Posted on February 18, 2026 by sputterpub

I understand that recall isn’t true,and witnesses are infamously wrong,so will it matter all that much to youif I’m inventive when I write your song?I promise to be credible, endueyour deeds with motivation clear and strong.I feel compelled to make … Continue reading →

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Floor Plans

Posted on February 17, 2026 by sputterpub

I woke too early but I stayed in bed.From 5 to 6, I hunkered down some more.I planned the daily tasks and thought insteadof dreaming, clocked the light through window door,and then let floor plans cycle through my headfrom houses … Continue reading →

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Origin

Posted on February 16, 2026 by sputterpub

If I postponed a project’s originuntil I had the perfect starting phraseand outline too, I never would begin.Instead I start, and as the work displays,it triggers gears that mesh and move within –emotion lubricates, idea conveysattention to momentum’s certain speedand … Continue reading →

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Onion Quest

Posted on February 15, 2026 by sputterpub

Presented with 6 eggs a week ago,farm-laid and then conveyed by family,the motivation in me starts to growto use them in frittata. I can seehere cheese and spinach, and some broccoli,but needing onion I walk to the store.I buy ten … Continue reading →

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Spoons

Posted on February 14, 2026 by sputterpub

Eleven spoons I pilfered over yearsof monthly lunches with two business friends.I had no use for them and it appearsI won’t employ them for ingestive ends.I think the tabs were mine – my conscience clearswith certainty my tipping made amends.Reviewing, … Continue reading →

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Privacy

Posted on February 13, 2026 by sputterpub

Succeeding 15 days of black-and-white,when paths were clear and absent shades of gray,and vacillation didn’t nudge despiteuncertain moments and a somber sway,I turned to sleep last night with appetitefor solitude I’ll satisfy today.We did the needful; now I look withinto … Continue reading →

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Phantastic

Posted on February 12, 2026 by sputterpub

I’m zoning out of late, on couch and chair,adrift in dream for moments, out of bed,replaying voices from Intensive Care,acknowledging delirium insteadof dialogue that’s accurate and spare.I’m carting crazed affection in my head.It’s not unpleasant and it’s feeling apt.I like … Continue reading →

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Stranger Words

Posted on February 11, 2026 by sputterpub

She made my day, I murmured as I turned.I know the stranger heard me anyway.She’d volunteered a comment and I learnedshe made my day. She spoke. I thanked. And she went on to say,“It’s easy when it’s true.” I’m not … Continue reading →

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Oh!

Posted on February 10, 2026 by sputterpub

I do not miss the nightly calls, althoughthe feeling that the evening’s not my ownuntil we speak may take some time to go.But what I learned, amazingly unknownuntil I spoke of her, what dawned to grow –in me her tales … Continue reading →

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Burial

Posted on February 9, 2026 by sputterpub

Within three days we put her in the earth.The mortuary helped, but overallwe worked together. She who gave us birthwas lowered to her husband’s side. No fallfrom grace was felt, no tumult to recall –a fairly perfect rite was rightly … Continue reading →

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