Category: Family
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The Gleaning
This morning I heard ….I heard a friend A friend got his miracle …..His miracle a lung A lung from someone …..Someone with a family A family who loved and prayed …..Prayed for a miracle A miracle of more time …..Time to love just a bit Just a bit more time …..Time to love just…
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Dreaming on a Cold Night Hundreds of Miles from Home Listening to the Furnace Hum
a prose poem =============================================== I dreamed I was at the old Black Reunion in Danville, IL with just my Granddad and I and I was playing with little boy cousins I did not know. I dreamed I was sitting on the front porch of my grandparents’ old house on Greenbush Street that was torn down…
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‘Social conditioning’ or ‘If Pavlov’s dog cleaned his own doggie dish’
My dishes drip dry – Don’t yours? Do you sometimes see a towel Hanging on the refrigerator door And Mom echoes in your amygdala The dishes aren’t done until They’re dried and put away But you resist the urge to dry your dish And scream in your head – Oh hell no I am the…
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Cold November School Days
1950’s cold rainy days days of buttered toast hot oatmeal breakfasts three spoons of sugar four, if mom wasn’t looking Days of flannel shirts and sweaters mittens tied with a string run through the sleeves of your coat yellow raincoat with a snap on hood Black galoshes pulled over shoes rows of shiny bend over…
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Amplified
(This is for all the poets, singers, dancers, actors, artists and mimes who step beyond their comfort zones and share) This is not rocket science you’ve been preparing for this all your life Remove your exterior gown sit naked at the dressing table turn it inside out Examine the weave of cloth the stitching that…
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Bentz’s birthday party
On Bentz’s 66th birthday we stood under umbrellas in the rain black plastic covered music speakers Red Shack Pickers played on a covered stage On Bentz’s 66th birthday no one danced barefoot in the mud but a frog leaped about in wet grass and disappeared under the stage On Bentz’s 66th birthday some gave up…
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Holiday haints
Last night, you dreamed you were set adrift in a yeasty haze of a bakery isle Nutmeg, peppermint, vanilla chocolate, cardamon and cinnamon Your diet demands loyalty you averted your eyes and walked on In the dairy section you grabbed butter, cottage cheese and yogurt Standing in the checkout line, you felt guilty that somehow…
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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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Retired engineer
It seemed like forever he married his wife raised two boys worked as a engineer and moved to the sunny coast He diets a bit walks his neighborhood pulls a re-engineered golf cart behind him as he picks up trash A small cooler and two buckets one for garbage and one for recycling a self-imposed…
