
A Chicken Carol
It was the week before Christmasand all through the housethere wasn’t a sound‘cept for that damn mouse. Then out in ...
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A Sashiko Life
You might sayshe stitched her life in a loose-wove cloth Examined closelyyou can see the flawszigzagging where it should have ...
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A Mother’s Border Policy
I am an idealist - who listens to me?You’ve already formed your own indisputable opinionof who should come first. There’s ...
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Why I Collect Cobalt Glass
Maybe she was six or seven,judging by the eye level of her mother’s dresser.Fingering the tear-drop glass shapes,nestled in a ...
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Your Last Lie
While you were snickering and sniveling,palms circling together in sinister delight,as you yelped, Gotcha again, libtard! While regurgitated liesslithered through ...
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Atlantic City 1964
That summer I left my childhood behind.Grandma arrived in her ancient Oldsmobilegiant sugar cookies nestled in tissue paperin a Poughkeepsie ...
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Seeing You in the New Hampshire Light
Posted a selfie of the two of us(Would that be an us-ie?)Kept looking at your face in the photoSomething was ...
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A Love Poem to Poetry
I wear this poet’s coarse cloak as a humble servant of truth. Poetry cannot manifest in deceit,and those who wield ...
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The Great Adventure
adventure: an exciting or unusual experience that usually involves risks. “Best wishes on your new adventure!”friends called out from their ...
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Moving to New Hampshire
It felt like biting into an unripe persimmon.The furry fuzzies curling my tongue - not at all what I expected ...
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In the moment
He put his hand on mine as he often does just before we end the day. And then the cat ...
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Burnt Sage
The flames began like a dry-heave migraine how did we miss the warnings the auras flashing on the periphery the ...
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A Sense of Sourdough
This began as a recipe for my blog, then became a poem. Is it a recipe? Is it a poem? ...
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The Amazing COVID 19 Magic Show
Quicker than the eye, you fling your cape over the facts. It’s all a hoax! You tweet. This suffering isn’t ...
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Breakfast in Bed
Opening my eyes to exit the stage of an instantly forgotten dream, I find myself at the edge of the ...
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It’s Okay to Feel this Way
In a recent visit to my doctor, I thought about telling her how extremely sad I am and that I ...
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So Began the Last Chance Decade
Ten years, that’s a conservative estimate, a window where we can still impact the fate of planet earth. A window ...
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