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  • Beneath the Pale Moon’s Embrace

    Light flickers in the corner of your old room, upon a desk pages lay empty lit by the moon. The barren journal tugs at your shedding snakeskin,all the years falling away telling you to hold old wounds within. You grab the pen in the aim of exhaling all that’s needed to say, perhaps starting with…

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  • We’ll Figure It Out

    – a pantoum“It’ll happen soon. We’ll figure it out.” I almost believe that.The guilt and stress induce paranoia–one step away from losing everything.I almost believe thatyou have to choose where you want to be.One step away from losing. Everythingprompts a shush, a pause, a “I gotta go” because we can’t be seen or heard.You have…

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  • If I Were A Cow

    then I’d be content to sit idly in the grass all day long to bask in the sun without sunscreen to lie under the tree not worrying about a thing to congregate with the others just eating our hay to not worry about making a living, just living to not worry about what to make…

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  • ‘Tis the Season

    You think it would be easier to bury your head,to bury your heart in the ground—to not have to deal with people around.Was our time here so vacant and unkind?We contribute only to the ills of mankind.We’re so good at falling from grace,but how could we escape and leave it all behind?I tell you, this…

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  • The Company You Keep

    I found higher ground to lie close to the clouds, where unfeigned life consists of watching the waves roll by in the blue sky. The weeks before, the weeks of laughing my head off out there with the others became too bright to stay in the middle of it all. I took the softer side,…

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  • Tangled Tenderness

    HE BRUSHES MY HAIR AND I BEGIN TO CRYbecause it’s like what you see in the movies:magnetic couples solidified over time,still in their prime of nurturing each other,still needing one another,still wanting to be there after the kids have gone,still holding on for the rest of the ride. In his simple act I am truly…

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  • Buttoned Up To My Chin

    The chill of a winter breeze nips my cheeks. I suck in and blow out little breath clouds as I stride across cobblestone streets bathed in light. My bare thighs above my knee-highs ache for your touch, your warmth. I clutch my collar and rise my red coat buttoned up to my chin, not letting…

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  • Tokyo On The Radio

    You take flight with Tokyo in mind. Suddenly it’s Tokyo on the airwaves, Tokyo in your eyes. Red lights beam everywhere in the skies and I’m left wondering, where are you tonight? Does she have you captured in a spinning room inspiring all your ink to spill? There was a time when it was ……

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  • You Gave Me Everything, And Nothing At All

    When I left you did you realize that all those years would lead us to a dead end? You gave me everything to start but nothing in the end. Nights came full of frustration followed by days of disappointment, hours of mind-numbing waiting, unanswered calls confirmed I wasn’t worth the effort giving. You gave me…

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  • Beneath the Noise

    days begin in a soft sunlit haze drifting between caresses and kisses alarms sound demanding attention focus shifts to the work of morning meetings while the dog begs for his daily routine two hands aren’t enough to hold, or to juggle the noise floats above and around nothing penetrates the barrier the only thing that…

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