Category: Belonging / Loneliness
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how about you?
sharp Fall mornings cut through summer clothes how about you? I await the sun and lingering summer how about you? COVID isolates this extrovert twists my brain in knots how about you? vicissitudes of aging don’t mesh with young desires how about you? 10-20-21
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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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Loving a rescue dog
Love lived in dog years ends Before you’re ready for it to end So you foster another dog Try to break bad habits Their previous owner couldn’t You use a kennel and bark collar Put them on a diet and Maybe it works and maybe you are happy But still, love lived in dog years…
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Through the broken glass
You have grown tired of sickness All the news, all the fake news and Graphs spinning in fractal mazes You want to sit with friends Say hi to strangers Enjoy music and poetry in a crowded room You want to attend workshops in person See peoples’ gears grind as they respond to prompts Wander aimlessly…
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you nod from your porch I nod while I walk this intimacy of strangers sustains us both 9-6-21
My husband's poetry 