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Poem #16 Beauty
I want always to be useful. But today, I spent thousands of dollars on a mission to straighten my teeth Which provides no use at all. The teeth work…
posted November 19, 2018
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Poem #12-Come Gather Round (Really it’s a song, see video)
Woke up this morning with my mind already gone Nothing but bad news on the table It seems so important to have hope in these times But I’m unable, I’m…
posted November 14, 2018
Poems
Poem #13–A Council of Guitars
There’s a muscle in my back Left trapezoid, north of the rhomboid That never relaxes. It’s the muscle that can’t stop grabbing for the guitar. “There, there, there!” I show…
posted November 14, 2018
Poems
Poem #11: Get Back in the Ring
Let me take you behind the scene Where the people live on another screen Well, we all love screens, And confuse them for the truth. We have no reason to…
posted November 12, 2018
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#10 Norway Maple
Our daughter said, this morning, “Oh, look at how fast the yellow leaves are falling from the Norway Maple!” You said, “If we all blew on them, down they’d go.”…
posted November 10, 2018
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#9 Onion
They say it’s like an onion This work You slice through layer after layer To get to a core Is there a core to an onion? They forgot to tell…
posted November 9, 2018
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Poem #8 Banquet
We have waited for this day. We didn’t know what we’d been missing Until we drove out of town, through the last color–– Bursts of yellows and oak-tawny leaves The…
posted November 9, 2018
Poems
Poem #7 Two Years Ago
Two years ago I was afraid to wake up Afraid to find out The truth I knew in my bones Even today, I have to circle around the memory It’s…
posted November 9, 2018
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Poem #6 Secession
She is tired of fighting with him. Tired of his insistence that this is his turf Tired of the blustering Tired of pretending she doesn’t see through his rationalizations….
posted November 9, 2018
