Category Archives: Poetry

Out to Ice

Posted on January 26, 2024 by sputterpub

The travel to the north was smooth, exceptthe bus app made me do an extra stroll,and then I lost the bumbershoot I keptin netty outside pocket. Soft controlsecurity I breezed instead of crept,and turbulence was gentle rock and roll.But moving … Continue reading →

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I Wonder Why

Posted on January 25, 2024 by sputterpub

I wonder why I stayed up hours late –was it digestive issues, or did Ihave poorly-mixed emotions on my plate?I wonder why. At last I slept, and felt an answer tryto influence my dreams and penetratemy waking thoughts, and start … Continue reading →

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An Alien Existence

Posted on January 24, 2024 by sputterpub

I’m contemplating octopuses now(two books after a documentary) –considering its biosphere, and howit constitutes its life philosophy.I glimpse that it could organize and beinstead of lone, a sort of colony:an 8-life cluster of community,with central vision allocating goals,conjoined and never … Continue reading →

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Unsuitable

Posted on January 23, 2024 by sputterpub

Unsuitable they are. I grow awaretheir variance is indisputable.The present state of them I now declareunsuitable. The situation’s not inscrutable –one full of thought and one who doesn’t carebut claims her attitude’s immutable. Long history can’t justify this wear.Continuance is … Continue reading →

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She & Her

Posted on January 22, 2024 by sputterpub

Predictable – it’s not a wholesome trend.But I don’t think she’ll do a thing about it.Declaring what her “type” is, she won’t bendand, as for learning any time, I doubt it.A smidge of self-aware could hone or mend,but she’s so … Continue reading →

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Changing Sleep

Posted on January 21, 2024 by sputterpub

It doesn’t bother me, that nights are splitby aging into sleeps of brevity.It seems among all change appropriate.It doesn’t bother me. I won’t take melatonin, herbal tea,or drugs my peers consider requisite.I don’t use exercise as remedy. But management of … Continue reading →

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Sole (Second Ten Days)

Posted on January 20, 2024 by sputterpub

I’m limbered now and ready for this phase.I sit, knees out, feet meeting sole to sole.I morning-took the mat eleven days –the constancy my one and only goal –and lately it is redefining whole.Massaging arch to joints to toes, my … Continue reading →

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Confident Error

Posted on January 19, 2024 by sputterpub

Three common nouns, the doctor said aloud.The patient tried to park them in his head.They talked of other things – they here-and-now’d,and drew a bit, and even backwards-read.The doctor then requested he recitethe words provided at the session’s start.With confidence, … Continue reading →

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A Good Call

Posted on January 18, 2024 by sputterpub

Among the birthday messages and calls(appreciated, sure, but like a listto monitor, who’d sooner dance in thrallsof solitude, by words and puzzles blissed),the hour spent with one who wasn’t missed,the paramour from 50 years ago,then twice-refused, a different row to … Continue reading →

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8th Day

Posted on January 17, 2024 by sputterpub

As if the sabbath happened one day late,last Tuesday was the yoga day of rest.We breathed and stretched so slowly on Day 8,twelve hundred seconds wasn’t any testof stamina. But time to sense the stateof sinew, bone, and muscle was … Continue reading →

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