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My old family photos; little, black-and-white, white-bordered circus fun-house mirrors the reflection peering back at me is not a true replica; more a police artist’s puzzled rendering of what nine different witnesses describe as the same bank robber I look at me and see that someone else staring back in a very clear-cut case of Read more
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Open the door and the light comes on but only when you open the door Illuminated are the remnants of the recent past (some not so recent) the leftover bits and pieces, scraps and tasty morsels with which you can construct a spontaneous, piecemeal feast, a light lunch, or default snack fresh and climate controlled Read more
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When I was a kid we planted trees by the lake 72 pine seedlings hauled north in milk cartons arranged on the back floor of a ’39 Dodge the trees and I were small, green, pliable in need of nurturing the Dodge sits now in a junkyard, the remaining pines scrape the sky I remember Read more
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She loves me, she loves me not Played that game as a kid, for fun with and without the flower, played it frequently later, for keeps Won once or twice I have over picked my life’s quota of prophetic daisies, come out on either side of the nursery rhyme sometimes the right verse, wrong time Read more
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Forever is an ugly word Inspiring, enticing, incorrigible promise and implications immense execution uncertain, incomplete Forever is overly simplistic hopeless realization intoxicates a siren-like, self-coaxing impossibility mocking, scornful of your naiveté Forever is an ugly word gracefully benign until practiced; its only relationship to reality is its ultimate, untimely, predictable demise Read more
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Moon Mystical, mesmerizing magical and mighty; moves oceans makes animals howl people aberrant Moon OCD: properly, orderly suspended above us invisibly, yet not flying Moon Flew to it, landed on it found nothing. Moon momentary, nightly mystical, mesmerizing moon Read more
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Consider the common donut if you purchase one it comes with a hole you can purchase just the hole, but it is not a hole at all it is a ball; a doughy sphere made from a disc that once was where the hole is now, yet it was never truly a hole in its Read more
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You are Gaelic beautiful, mystical, lyrical, recognizable, incomprehensible, not easily translated Yet I love to listen to your rhythms with heart, soul, eyes you are a romance language I can always listen to, try to read, knowing no matter how much I read and hear, I could never be truly fluent in you Read more
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Summer is when you most think of her, want her hot, sultry, at times stifling melting into yourself, sweat trickles into places that spark imagination, irritate, perturb undeniably sensual, cursable, so memorably bemusing she will return, as always, the bittersweet equinox of her Read more
Ponderable polemics, poetic 