Category: grief
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The dance
When I was young I had no fear. I dove off bridges into the flooded Wabash, turned off head lights and raced away into the night on acid, hitchhiked across America, stood toe to toe with a cop and a billie club and won. I took my beating from a squad of his buddies in…
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Prayers up
Movers come at 8:30 Junk/Salvage guys at 10 Suitcase is packed Coffee’s hot and fresh Patio is calling one last time Prayers up for Jasmine 9-15-25
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empty haiku
sit on daughter’s deck birds sing in the deep green woods empty bird feeder 9-13-25
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Tailless lizard
High above a plane glistens in fading light, crescent moon visible in blue sky. Plane and moon pass by each other or so is seems from where I sit. Tailless lizard walks by on porch screen. Does it know I cannot reach it through the screen or is its arrogance why it is a tailless…
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melancholy haiku
because we love, time doesn’t move in one direction it swirls and eddies 8-15-25
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Blue bloom
it does not take a bouquet to see beauty in a blue bloom open your eyes before you crush it under foot 8-11-25
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Tired of waiting
tired of waiting for light to reveal truths written with invisible ink I put on a blindfold and lie down for a nap 8-10-25
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Feels
to get out of your head you go out you get in your feels and leave early sadness is contagious why infect others? 8-9-25
My husband's poetry 