Category: freedom
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Intercalary days
Today is a day for giving of gifts a time before the fast before the new year solstice. Chickens cackle in their cage, birds call back and forth in trees. I imagine them comparing the freedom of the woods and the safety of a restrained life. I have known both and long for safety, when…
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Freedom
What city landscape architect had money left over in their budget To throw away on a fence for only one side of a pond; Any child or old man can walk around? On the water side of the fence, a Fall flurry of flowers grows white and wild. On my side of the wire, two…
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Autumn beauty
I admire your curves The smooth texture of your skin It is not necessary to hold you You are doing fine without me Possession would be A death sentence I admire your curves The smooth texture of your skin And walk on 9-22-21
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60 years on
Sixty years on I wonder what white Cubans And black Cubans think of Batista What stories grandfathers and grandmothers Washed and served with salad greens At dinner tables in Cuba and America What did parents teach their children And what do children know of truth? Sixty years on I wonder what white Cubans And black…
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window rattling
fighter jets race low crack sky shake house gone before sound freedom is not quiet 5-2-21
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haiku while sweeping pollen from the porch
on a screened porch silllooking out, a dead wasp lieslonging for freedom 4-10-21
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a wall
a wall never kept a hungry animal or a fleeing deer on the other side they always find a way to go around or over or burrow underground 4-4-21
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We the people
Whether You Me Us Like It Or Not A Victory Is Not A Mandate And You Me Us Must Move Forward Together 11-6-20
My husband's poetry 