Category: friends
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Festival dancer
low slung pants, mid-riff top rainbow painted eyes dances at the stage with lighted hoops moves to music in hips and feet she lives in the moment, the movement and the adulation little girls love her and she loves them back 8-20-23
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Festival’s last day
children are up early they always are life’s a big adventure sit and listen in your camp chair somewhere someone strums a guitar flute plays in distance stage hands remove tarps fold and put away vendors gather, talk with new friends cicadas console one another PATIENCE… they’ll be gone tomorrow 8-20-23
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waiting on a friend
Chilly orange rind sundown Driving to meet a friend Lazy day before the day before Christmas Tea seeps in green cup Sam Cook plays overhead in coffee shop Waiting on a friend 12-23-24
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a snake eating its tail
every end is a beginning of something new accept it and move on obsess over an ending and you may miss a new beginning 9-2-23
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haiku reflection on friends gone too soon
late summer morning wind tossed leaves drift on the pond couldn’t wait for Autumn 9-9-23
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Waiting
freckled light through trees spinache souffle on a plate brown coffee in a cup waiting on a friend 9-15-23
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After the flood
some days with some people I wonder if they meant prey when I thought they said pray and I quiver in the dark praying 12-16-24
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Chicken Little
sky falls on red sundown red fox licks his lips blue Wednesday morning Henny Penny screams the end is near shades of trauma prism light x and y of politics, accidents of birth world spins red, then black and back to blue do not fear children’s fables in the dark, zombies eat their own let…
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highway 21
racing through the dark lightning strobes the road wipers slap windshield hazard lights ahead pull off the road only nineteen miles to go fear is not my modus operandi I race through the dark an invincible fool weaves through traffic I hope they don’t overreach their skill set and take me with them before the…
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