Monthly Archives: April 2012

my word

I can be poetic in the morning, by moonlight, alone in a clean house, beside a flowerbed, at a local cafe, after a bike ride in autumn, a walk through freshly fallen snow, while holding a sleeping child, through tears, … Continue reading

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a listening

I’m content to wait. I know all four points on this afternoon’s list. What to buy, what to do, how to prepare for the next doing, later, beyond this pleasant spell. Already after four, I am aware the day is … Continue reading

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a witness

I wanted to give it to you, the real beauty, the bit of sweetness, the way my breath caught barely when I saw the whole picture. I love to see it there, the whole moon framed in a pocket created … Continue reading

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all together

  I smell everything cookies rising in the oven. Cinnamon, raisin, walnut, chocolate chip. I made them and I didn’t. Measure, dump, mix, pour, shape, heat, cool at a prompting beep. Not till, water, weed, witness, pluck at perfection. My … Continue reading

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worry poem

“Worrying is praying for what you don’t want.” This quote and the tornadoes in Dallas this afternoon, trying to get a hold of friends and imagining what they might be feeling as the roaring passes so near, gave birth to … Continue reading

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and then?

What does it feel like after you win the Olympics, drink champagne carried aloft on the arms of manic frenzy, begin to inhale deeply again, then stretch your winning body in an unfamiliar bed a thousand miles from home, still … Continue reading

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Happy National Poetry Month

In honor of redirecting words to clearly reflect the unexplainable at times when grammar gets in the way, when I wish only for shades of meaning to wander through your mind, I commit to creating a quantity of poems equal … Continue reading

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Rough Day – update from my mom

Karen and I came back from Zion about noon yesterday, after my long chemo session on Friday afternoon. Usually by the next afternoon I feel pretty normal, but not this time. I basically slept from soon after arriving home yesterday … Continue reading

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