Category: daily life
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A Sunny Day Recipe for Smiling
If you need only one quarter for a parking meter use six it will make someone smile when you leave 11-6-19
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Coaching Soccer on Elysium Fields
I still think of you and wonder if I had been home when you came by and if we had talked, things might be different but I wasn’t home and we never spoke Last night, I watched an artist paint a skeleton face on pavement at a street festival and had to leave because you…
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The quietude of wet
3 am, dishes washed clothes in dryer butter in coffee come sit and watch night from my porch smell the wet of moldy leaves damp soil and warm coffee the frost of autumn comes late in the South and that’s okay light rain drips – sparkles in trees asphalt can’t suppress crushed stone’s glisten only…
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Waiting
in the dusk before dawn fog halos street lights water drips from trees two students wait on corner for the school bus to come I wait for a friend to stop by for coffee rain waits for no one 10-29-19
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Homeroom
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You woke in autumn darkness from a dream where you were back in 8th grade you were crushing on all the girls but were too afraid to tell them Because you didn’t want them to laugh at you Because you thought you were too skinny Because your mom wouldn’t let you wear cool clothes You…
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The Morning News from My Porch
To the round-bellied red bird feeding in dry leaves of our yard how’d you get so fat? You’ve eaten more than your share and still you feed Before you’re able to fly and flee, a blue calico will come to devour you She’ll slide quietly into the yard her left paw pinning you to the…
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Light rain
Light rain dim light of autumn Birds are quiet geese honk overhead In the distance a car alarm complains Every morning the sun sleeps in later When rain ends I will rake leaves Without being asked and think of my parents 10-16-19
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Monday
rumble rattle squeak yellow school buses betray their coming from two stops away kids on corners clutch books and queue wait for buses to come in view rumble rattle squeak yellow school buses return tired students of diminishing yearn 10-14-19
