Category Archives: Poetry

Thumps in the Night

Posted on January 3, 2025 by sputterpub

The footsteps overhead last night were loud,as if an upstairs neighbor ogre-strode.But there’s no place above my place – endowedI am with this old cottage. My abodeis solo-set away from stairs or road;when someone walks my roof, there’s little sound.Those … Continue reading →

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Skidding

Posted on January 2, 2025 by sputterpub

I skidded on the wood outside my doorthat forms a boardwalk to the entry gate.Each winter, rain makes stepping there unsure –plant-slick and weathered. I offset my weightavoiding falling, swerving twice. My fateis to now to wait for what that … Continue reading →

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Left Shoes

Posted on January 1, 2025 by sputterpub

I’ve noticed shoes on sidewalks near the street –a pair or more for passersby to take –admired pairs on wires flung in neatarray that maybe advertisements make(for parties? drugs? a way to night-compete?).But last week on a stroll, the sight … Continue reading →

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Listening Fail

Posted on December 31, 2024 by sputterpub

She may consider you her closest friend.Her go-to interlocutors are youand most her life her sister. You contend with her enthusiastic points of view,her pacing judgments and her snap advice,the blurts and cold assertions how to do what she would, … Continue reading →

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A Blue Bath

Posted on December 30, 2024 by sputterpub

My favorite bomb will turn the water green,but gifted with a dreidel shape, I choseto drop it yesterday. (It wouldn’t meanas much next week). Around my toesand hips releasing blue, it fizzled cleanand marbled creamy white, and charmed my nosewith … Continue reading →

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Online Challenges

Posted on December 29, 2024 by sputterpub

I dislike clutter, and I’m organized.It’s rarely that I misplace any stuff.So I was rattled searching and surprisedto ransack for an hour. Not enough,I then found seeking online data tough,addressing questions from my CPA.I breathed to calm my tendency to … Continue reading →

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Misplacement

Posted on December 28, 2024 by sputterpub

I wrote a little stanza yesterdayand meant to type it up today, but foundI couldn’t find it in the small arrayof iPad, phone and mail. I looked aroundmy one room and at stuff I threw away,and wondered if my memory’s … Continue reading →

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Intensified Gruntling

Posted on December 27, 2024 by sputterpub

Disgruntled waking from an early dreamthat fled like dust motes in the morning light,I surveyed the personae in my scene,and found near every character not rightor wrong exactly, but in some way quiteerratic now, less affable than then.Though no one’s … Continue reading →

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Expiration

Posted on December 26, 2024 by sputterpub

Why are you friends? they queried recently.Responding we go back so many years,I said although we’re vastly different, wehave managed mutual respect. Some tearswe’ve shed in anger – we sustained a breachat least two times, but found a pathway back.And … Continue reading →

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Holiday Talk

Posted on December 25, 2024 by sputterpub

The kids view Xmas as a holidaythat’s less religious than it’s cultural.In fact they would ignore the creche display,church service, carol lyrics and the pulltoward gifting first exampled by three kings.We gave them history but they rebut –no miracles except … Continue reading →

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