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PoetryThe Emigrant
America’s fucked I want to go to America I can’t get to America If I get to America they won’t let me back I…
PoetryI HAD TO LIGHT A SECOND CIGARETTE
I had to light a second cigarette I was too anxious science says smoking makes you more anxious screw science I know what calms…
PoetrySearching for True North
Words circle an elusive center of meaning as wolves searching for warmth stalk fires on the coldest night of the year and aurora borealis…
PoetryEmpty Metaphors
post-menopausal my feet get cold really, very cold so i bought a pair of fleece woven house boots soft rubber memory soles made in…
PoetryA Conversation at the Age Desk
There must be some mistake I can’t be that old Check the ledger again The ledger is correct, sir It is never wrong And…
PoetryPaste Wax
I asked Dad what he’d been doing lately. He said he’d been having nice phone conversations. I asked who he’d been talking to. He…
PoetryHow Long
I may have been a child once I cannot recall young legs, bright cheeks, smooth skin - mirror reflects truth, aged tired eyes, silver…
PoetryWe will
Do you remember when we planted the garden I tilled the soil and you followed behind carefully making lines for rows then lovingly placing…
Poetrythe moon chimes in
the river flows and flows the castle walls have been breached a dinner table heaves on the ramparts of our friendships crows, bearing…
PoetrySoaked as I am
Luck is that way rain falls over picnic dropped vase, water dribbles ankles, floor slippery, rivulets run driveway cracks, car has a new dent…
PoetryI Must Be Careful What I Leave
Someday someone I love will find everything I have left hidden in boxes filed in cabinets hung on walls or even buried in rubble.…