Category Archives: Poetry

Thanks

Can life much better get? I feel today as wise as 90 and as lithe as 10, vivacious, self-amused, about to play at work and working play for gain again. I’m somewhat irresistible. I’m told I speak too loudly, but … Continue reading

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Unbuckled

The question: do we have a variance in attitude that’s gender-based? Do brains of males more likely sense the broad expanse of forest, while the women see the lanes of trees, and note the shapes of leaves and seeds? It … Continue reading

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Sun-entry

At 9 a.m. the sun’s a silver plate suspended in the fog. The air is chill and laden with the saturated weight of hanging water. Distillations fill the spaces in between the blocks and bricks that pave the way I … Continue reading

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Refresher

My hands are not experienced at this, for unfamiliar is the feel of you. I draw your essence in with every kiss and long to take your length, but this is new to me again; again I’m new confused with … Continue reading

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Conditional Love

I don’t know what response to give you now. I wonder: can I leave your words alone? Impelled to answer, I do not know how to meet your sadness fairly. For the tone of recent messages is poignant, blue, in … Continue reading

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Shelby (A Semi-Acrostic)

As unselfconscious as the autumn light, a clumsy tumble bound of energy with streaming ears and boulder paws aflight atop a springing meadow… Come to me, oh tonic mongrel: be my everfriend. Example me your optimistic view. Remind me more … Continue reading

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Sketching

This pen’s a stick of charcoal in my hand. I sweep in strokes across a page of lined buff paper, spiral-bound and pale as sand, or shade with tiny smudges. All I find outside commuting windows or beyond my walking … Continue reading

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Noticing Palm Trees

I owe the gardener my thanks, for Ken by planting something made me notice what was all around me. Here it is again – the evidence my eyes were in a rut. Remarkable: I must admit the sight of tropic … Continue reading

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Standard Time

The light we set to saving in the spring we only borrowed; now we must return it so the southern hemisphere can bring its crops to readiness, its skin aburn. We fall this weekend back. We get the hour sacrificed … Continue reading

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Night Vision

I went to bed too early, so I dreamt vignettes all night as if my history were made of shorts: remixing trite with tribulation; splintering delight with thorny iterations and retorts. So I beheld the boredom of my youth, saw … Continue reading

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