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Aug 30, 2022

Engine

Published in the 90's Engine revs at the stoplight Fearful the cold wind with suck out its power. Wizened leaves race or run or chase Performing gymnastic death throes The night is wet and cold The first storm of the season And I drive. To just keep moving, to meet…

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Aug 25, 2022

Green

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Aug 23, 2022

Snips and Snails

This boy is covered in shades of dirt and sweetly sweated grime, carrying a tiny slug on his index finger before tucking it into his shirt pocket for safe keeping. This boy wraps a bag of flour in a blanket and fiercely defends his baby against smaller hands, he crys…

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Aug 18, 2022

Light

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Aug 16, 2022

Vocalise

Children tonight, teeth scrubbed and faces washed, asked me to sing to them as they drifted, and so I did. Songs about sunshine and about pineapples and about the land…

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Aug 11, 2022

Shadow

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Aug 9, 2022

Not For The Timid

I picked her up at the airport, hollow, practically deserted. “She has Alzheimer’s.” They quickly gave me a pass to meet her at the gate. Calling a sweetheart while I wait, wishing to be drunk. She arrives 80, but girlish, looking happy, lucid and giddy. It’s so easy when she’s…

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Poetry

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Aug 4, 2022

Found

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Aug 2, 2022

Small

Small hands and tiny eyebrows resting over sweet skin, pink cheeks and cornsilk for hair as they sleep and breath and exhale a sweet scent that I have breathed since it…

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Poetry

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Jul 28, 2022

Bare

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