Category Archives: Poetry

Dawn Dreams

Posted on January 6, 2024 by sputterpub

Twice recently I woke amidst a dreamin which I had a worry or concernabout my little girl or boy. The scenewas not a nightmare, but it took a turnof search or plan required, and betweenthe instant fade and blink, I’d … Continue reading →

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Tree Sweets

Posted on January 5, 2024 by sputterpub

Persimmons hang like orange Christmas spheresand tantalize this squirrel in the yard.She climbs and stretches so her chest appears,and bites the fruit that is no longer hardthe way it was two weeks ago. On guardand geared for predators, I take … Continue reading →

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Grateful for Irritation

Posted on January 4, 2024 by sputterpub

The theme a week ago was gratitude –eight minutes meditating on the rug.I crossed my legs in peaceful attitude,and ocean-breathed as if it were a drug.The guide said now be glad to be imbuedwith grace you haven’t voiced. I gave … Continue reading →

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Scourge Surge

Posted on January 3, 2024 by sputterpub

I’ve co-existed with the critters here –the garden is their home as much as mine –and wasn’t overbothered till this year,when building on my eastern boundary line,and now the north, has changed the biosphere.Too many skunks no longer seem benign.I’ll … Continue reading →

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Five Days of Peace

Posted on January 2, 2024 by sputterpub

For five days there was nothing on my list,and I leaned into leisure all I could,aboard my landboat sloop and comfort-kissed,admiring tile, glass, gas flames, and wood.Beginning at a luncheon with a goodold friend, I then embraced full solitude,and hunkered … Continue reading →

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Belly Love by Firelight

Posted on January 1, 2024 by sputterpub

Pre-natal yoga seemed a likely choicetoday: attending warmly to my girth.I tried to cradle belly and rejoicealthough I’m over 70 on earth,and 40 years beyond the younger’s birth.Today I didn’t hate my globe of fatthat at 16 was toned, completely … Continue reading →

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Acceleration

Posted on December 31, 2023 by sputterpub

They told me history repeats itself.I heard it from my father and in class.I found the phrase in books upon a shelf,with liberty to browse. It came to passI got it, reading fiction, history:the cruelties Dickens caught, Voltaire and Swift.I … Continue reading →

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Analogy Regarding Empathy

Posted on December 30, 2023 by sputterpub

Imagine that you’re driving slowly here,when someone darts too fast for you to stop.You can’t avoid collision – though you veerand brake, a bone is snapped and tendons pop.You’re traumatized although you’re not to blame,but sympathy and aid is not … Continue reading →

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The Oakland Nod

Posted on December 29, 2023 by sputterpub

I’ve lived in these parts all my adult years,enjoying weather and topography,admiring how my neighborhood appears,inhaling bay-washed air. Diversityabounds and has accustomed me to seethe postures in the streets, the manner howthe Oakland nod goes up initially –a greeting that … Continue reading →

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Attribution

Posted on December 28, 2023 by sputterpub

We visit Mom fortnightly after work,but sometimes cause arises to postpone.I travel, or a banquet throws a quirk,or Covid makes her want to dine alone.Declaring in our daily telephoneexchange, regret my brother chose delay,I then receive a text from him, … Continue reading →

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