Category: friends
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Water talk
a pond shares from deep within a river brings news from beyond the hill somedays, I much prefer a river it waves, calls out a greeting and moves on. 9-13-22
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naps
…forgive me if I take more naps than I used to on the backs of my eye lids maps etched of places I’ve been and places I still want to go vignettes written of folks I know and imagined conversations with folks still here and folks now gone I’m not tired I’m just planning where…
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Goodbye to a friend
morphine drip prescribed soul flashes light in the dark outside I sit train wails goodbye 5-11-22
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The culvert
We followed a stream through a wooded ravine that ended at the mouth of a large culvert in a hill Inside, we walked ankle deep in water and stopped stooped over in half light staring into a deep pool You picked up a stone threw it in and waited to hear it hit bottom; our…
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“Why not say, hi?”
“She seems to know you.” “Yes.” “Why not say, hi?” He swallows a bite of the pastry we’d just bought from the girl at the counter. “She’s from the neighborhood and I had sex with her four years ago.” “And you can’t speak now?” “She had sex with all the boys; it was just my…
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Scream
A scream in the night is not meant to be a warning, but you check the front door lock and dial 911 You sit behind the curtain stare through the crack into the dark and wish you were brave enough to go outside You wait for blue lights that seem as if they’ll never come…
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Worship day
On Sunday, dog walkers sleep in Mowers and blowers slumber in sheds Old man gathering sticks in his yard Watches a bike rider disappear over hill Bull frog does its best impression of Barry White Booming bird calls in woods A friend of a vegan friend with COVID, texts Can you drop almond milk off…
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