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It Will Not Let Me Rest
I won’t let it rest, either: 26 June 2017 34 Love Held Strong I don’t know how to work a heart that pounds like hooves all night, all day, and won’t lie down and let me go to sleep no … Continue reading
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Fate’s In a Roil
I wrote a pretty good post for this piece, then lost it in trying to upload it. Thank goodness I always compose real poems in Word and copy and paste my new lines here. Just so you know, it was … Continue reading
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In This, and Any Other Hour
Less than one hour ago: 15 August 2016 13 All Feathers, Under Skin She’s laid aside the supple skin of woven silk that graced your nights for such a long, uneven time, the ghost who goes through shaded lights and … Continue reading
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Thoughts I’ve Been Thinking
Oh, you know perfectly well it’s just another damned poem! Poetry, I love you so much, if you had a human body, I would know I am a ghost. Tonight, scarce ten minutes ago: We Have Borne This Before No … Continue reading
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Pridal Twilight Song
Oh, never mind any commentary. Here is what my calling, and my answering, brought to me tonight: 10 June 2016 10 No One’s Dead, and No One’s Died They’ve neither tree nor limb on which to build a nest that’s … Continue reading
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Weird, but Weirdly Wise
8 June 2016 8 In Sight of What’s Wise My shivering ghost awoke lonely last morning, its thin cotton sheets soaked right through, and so cold. Why the high window lay wide open all through the night, I don’t know, … Continue reading
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Still
Surely this is all still part of anniversary grief. He was brilliant, but more than that, he was infinitely imaginative and kind. My forever friend, you are always welcome to dream with me, and tell me everything. 26 April 2016 … Continue reading
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Sharing
Here is a recent poem I just shared at my favorite poetry blog, Scarriet. As soon as I had, I felt a little guilty for not posting it here. Well, I can fix that! I don’t know if you’ll be … Continue reading
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Little Tears and Wings
Today was fine and clear in the afternoon, and I walked out and looked around. Along the main road, I followed an empty lot that was just dry gravel, no pavement. Beside it, I watched for a long time a … Continue reading
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Before and After You Left
See my last post, if there is any mystery to this: Before and After You Left A new looming strangeness grows into the patterns our tired hands have woven since time out of mind. Stand just a shade to the … Continue reading
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