Category: beauty
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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
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Zen Gaelic
You caught the blue grey glint of a single pinwheeling feather falling from the sky. It left no ripple on the water as it sank. No one saw its surrender but you. 6-16-21
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Walking meditation with Thich Nhat Hanh
1) moss comes green on the morning after rain halfway to your destination not wanting to crush haploid to diploid dance you stand paralyzed 2) a crow lands on a limb above your head shakes chill water from leaves you continue on in a village of plums bloom words “each mindful step, reminds us that…
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