Category: love
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For E.M. Forster
Every room has a view even if it’s only four walls and door and appears to be a closet It doesn’t matter if you have a window or how you got in or how you go out Just know you can leave when you are ready Love does not follow norms it follows where it…
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meditations for a grey day
Somewhere someone is marrying birthing graduating retiring dying mourning celebrating So have a Happy, Sad, Joyous, Sorrowful, Melodramatic, Laughing, Crying, Up or Down, in a Fucking Funk Fun Day! 3-5-20 (music of Richard & Mimi Farina in background…)
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Frog hymns
In the woods Tree frogs sing Sing songs of waking Sing Spring’s first hymn Sing call and response Is anyone awake? …I am Where are you? …Over here Where is here? …Tell me about yourself, first I am male, isn’t that enough? …I want to be romanced I don’t have all night …We have all…
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Traversing darkness while moving toward light
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by
I sat with a friend around a fire in our yard We talked of children, the craft of writing, of basketball an ideal job, a feral cat he gave a friend and the one he still feeds on his porch We talked of possums, guinea hens, ticks, raccoons and a hawk that swooped up a…
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4 a.m.
In my mother’s voice a cup and bowl call from the sink “Albert, how did you go to bed with dirty dishes in the sink? Quietly, I shut the kitchen door wash the dishes and try not to wake my wife sleeping in the bedroom Making the woman in your head and the one in…
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Collecting sea shells
on this last day of 2019 be kind to yourself and remember: sixty percent of who you are will slake your thirst wash you clean or drown you if you let it love yourself and the briny sea that laps your feet within you is an ocean with sand shimmering on the shore awaiting the…
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12/14
weekend roof rain rattle gutter pipe gurgle wet tire distant drone too wet for birds mantra it’s okay, go back to sleep 12-14-19
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2708 So. 18th St.
Every morning, he rose from his bed sat at the kitchen table by the window drank coffee with cream and listened to local news on the radio He shoveled snow in winter mowed the lawn in summer and walked the dog three times a day He warmed up the car, took her to the beauty…
