Category: beauty
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haikus in still life
in a pretty vase waist deep in sterile water compost pile calling cut flowers gasping tap water from kitchen sink trying not to die objectified pose beauty captured in full-bloom before their wilting 11-13-21
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early Friday afternoon haiku
white blossom blushed pink brown leaves rattled, it’s okay plane hummed in blue sky 11-12-21
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Mid-November green
white blooms leaves like small hands mid-November green if mom was a southern girl she would have planted one in our yard 11-9-21
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Dear Raphael
Paint me a laughing Madonna with postpartum belly rolls and hips Joseph in the foreground fashioning a new crèche Her wooly headed baby suckling a swollen nipple Little hands playing with her other breast All of them laughing and laughing at their good fortune 10-25-21
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early autumn haiku
reluctant summer resists the famine of light winter’s promised night 10-4-21
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Behind the screen
he tries to understand young girls raised to venerate the Virgin but women who came to veneration late in life are who he needs to hear and ask forgiveness 9-23-21
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Autumn beauty
I admire your curves The smooth texture of your skin It is not necessary to hold you You are doing fine without me Possession would be A death sentence I admire your curves The smooth texture of your skin And walk on 9-22-21
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After the rain
Clouds flee, sun returns Webs of entanglement glisten The spider waits patiently to eat, again 9-17-21
My husband's poetry 