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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Put Aside

Who taught us to game time withhold the gift of it as punishmentas if it was inconsequential sand to be ...
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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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3AM

3AM… when we are literally sick and tired,we turn back, and see others running behind uswith a bit more energy,hands ...
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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 Steel Pier in the 60s

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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Selfie with Juan

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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Room with a view of a cement wall

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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Defeat

Despite how the movies always ended, there was never really triumph of good over evil. There was only postponement. A ...
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Burnt sage

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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Triptych

Sixteen Remember feeling invincible. Indestructible. The cautions of elders slid off your ears, unheard. Carlos Hernandez, of the indigenous Guatemalan ...
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