Category: fear
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an anniversary meditation
dust motes shimmer through trees on sunbeams I sip coffee and read Hibakusha stories trees shake from an earthquake in the mountains I haven’t heard damage reports, but it will be mild _____ on the anniversary of Nagasaki I reflect 70,000 vaporized in a rush for peace children, mothers, fathers a Shinto shrine and Catholic…
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Porch rain
Hot summer day late afternoon rain water flows in street Thunder overhead somewhere a tree is cleaved to ground No matter, how cool you try to be, a flash and crack makes you jump You steal yourself for the next one and hope it doesn’t strike too close 6-30-20
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Oh, hell no!
After the storm, in the middle of the night I awoke from dream Telling my wife the baby was hungry and needs nursing That ship sailed long ago with a vasectomy in 1986 She said wake up You’re talking in your sleep, again 5-25-20
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Oneirodynia
Disoriented, I wake stand at the kitchen sink For a moment, I feel as if I’m a child, again, living in Indiana, hunkered down, waiting for a blizzard, hoping they close school tomorrow But the wind doesn’t howl at my window tomorrow’s forecast is sunny and warm folks are hoarding sanitizer and toilet paper not…
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Junk thinking
Today, the city will come by for curbside yard waste I think I’ll bundle up pandemic fears and set them out there, too Don’t believe those Bible thumping divine retribution doomsayers An asteroid took out the dinosaurs NOT gay rights, abortion prayer in school, immigration the plague or a coronavirus This isn’t the world’s first…
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Crystal halos
(for an old college friend, Terry – stay well, my friend; I will see you on the safe side of summer) ‘Crystal Halos’ This morning, a bird woke me with insistent calls of “Pick me, pick me,” outside my window I sat barefoot on the porch watched light shimmy down from tree tops to run…
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recurring dream
down dark corridors behind locked metal gates fears long lost hide maybe they are not lost maybe they are not hiding maybe you forgot where you put them and they are waiting to be found 3-25-20
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Social distancing
To the people that gather each day with coolers at the basketball court in the park To the people hosting house parties because the bars are closed To the people who partied at the beach until they were closed To the people who went on cruises because prices have dropped To the people who traded…
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Questions I ask of a chair
Where is my friend? Did they leave? I came by for a visit, but they were gone. Are they sitting in the sun room? On a scale of one to ten, what was their pain level? Have you been following the coronavirus news? I’m more afraid of sepsis and staph infections. Why didn’t they finish…
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