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PoetryBedtime
Dad let us stay up the nights Mom went out to sing with Sweet Adelines, saying we were big girls and could put ourselves…
PoetryOld Age Is a Laugh and a Blanket
I have Magoo eyes, narrow slits carved through bone that filter distractions and see to the future. When tapped with a toothbrush my broken…
PoetryMY HIGH SCHOOL CREATIVE WRITING TEACHER
i don't think about him much he wasn't very good and i wasn't either but marked in red pen at the top of my…
PoetryREMEMBERING HER PORCH AND THE MOONLIGHT
I remember her porch her cat in there it was screened in it was summer late at night almost morning the darkness and the…
PoetryRestraint, a How-To
Into this temper of writers called poets I shove my own shoulders Respectful of the undertaking I chisel my words and aim with care…
PoetryDistance holds our absence
There are birds here, the garden has no fence. My neighbor checks in on the roses and brushes away lice with soft working hands.…
PoetryOwning It
The moon is above me my toes are cold so I put some shoes on not because I'm going anywhere but just because it's…
FictionFull of Yesterday
Feels like I have a bag over my shoulder that’s full of yesterday. As I approach Alice’s place it gets not exactly heavy but…
Poetrytrash rolls like tumbleweeds
and gets hung on the curb then, freed by the wind lands in brown weeds beside the big ditch. I kick at a beer…
PoetryMy inner poet, like a child, makes believe
large pine trees in a bark beetle free forest after living long lives of capturing carbon & releasing oxygen & having been a home…
