Category: daily life
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Voyeurism 101: Saturday Morning at the Soda City Market in Six Easy Lessons
1) Arts and crafts – your name in wood, Handmade bird houses and bowls to sit on a shelf Tee-shirts – tie dyed, cute sayings, political epithets, Painted flags, cows and chickens with claws, birds on the beach Handmade pens and jewelry maybe imported from third world sweatshops 2) Food booths and trucks – artisan…
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haiku in time of rising food prices
during inflation hungry mice eat any cheese and don’t demand Brie 7-2-22
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Paper Nest Hornets 2022
Five paper nest hornets are building overhead, again Unconcerned how nervous and scared it makes the man on the porch feel. Soon it may be too unsafe outside And he and his husband will be forced back inside, because outside will be unsafe Forced to sit on the other side of the pane looking through…
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Retired marriage counselor
Sitting on your couch Watching reruns on TV You grew tired of trying to return Lonely socks to their mate Told them all to leave Bought a dozen pairs All the same – one size fits all Dumped them in your sock drawer Said, “Choose your own mate. It’s none of my business” 6-25-22
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tercet sun
Chilly dawn at water’s edge Anole hides in bush Waiting on the sun Suction toes hold it Hanging on the underside of a leaf You gather dead limbs Add them to your burn pile For cooler nights to come You study a preliminary translation For ‘Ode of the Dove’ Sip cold tea Wish you were…
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Chewing on clover
In the park, city employees fire up equipment at 6 am. Coffee in hand, you nod at mower and weedwhacker guys; Stop and talk basketball with the blower man, because He’s always looking for an excuse to stop working And you are always looking for someone to talk basketball with Before they go hide from…
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Fragrant tea in a blue cafe in a red state
At a lull in business your barista wipes her hands on her apron, steps from behind the bar, hugs a woman who just closed a laptop, smiles gently, kisses her forehead, goes back behind the bar, wipes the counter with a rag, you take another sip of Jasmine tea, and wonder how can that be…
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South Carolina earthquake, or, Alexa, play Carole King
The bed shook in the night She took it as a sign He slept right through it Woke rested the next morning Did not wake her And left 5-9-22
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Sikorsky’s bird
On the way to Fort Jackson it shakes our house, tells the woodpecker to quiet down appears briefly through the trees, then vanishes until it’s time to fly home to roost. 5-4-22
My husband's poetry 