Tag Archives: Poetry

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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Not Happening

Posted on February 8, 2026 by sputterpub

So many prophecies – all incorrect.“When you mature you’ll want to drive, to shop.”I don’t know why my intimates expectmy rational reluctances to stop.I study me and cannot recollectoccasions when I registered a dropin my aversions. So they say I’ll … Continue reading →

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About Mom, With Love

Posted on February 7, 2026 by sputterpub

Her life was long, and satisfying too.She lost her mom too soon but didn’t setthat fate upon us offspring – we’d the viewand words till elderly ourselves. She mether end in morphine nap, but had five scoreof years, and though … Continue reading →

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Missed Opp

Posted on February 6, 2026 by sputterpub

“Take care of Mom,” our father said at last,and “Funny, isn’t it, how things work out?”It’s not that we expected those outclassed,and true to form she was, without a doubt.At day or so before the woman passed,when speech remained, she … Continue reading →

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A Tincture of Time

Posted on February 5, 2026 by sputterpub

“Let’s give the patient that,” the doctor said.And though I hear the phrase is often usedin medicine, it swept within my headas charming and intelligent. Excusedfrom every pre-planned date – on pause instead,and not ambivalent or too confused,we’ll macerate these … Continue reading →

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