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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.…
PoetrySherwood
I found a room through the classifieds, down the street in a clapboard house not far from my job. I met Dale the landlord…
PoetryNo Physics for Love
I wonder what the opposite & equal reaction was to my loving you I know it doesn’t mean that you loved me as much…
Poetry22 Sept 22
He wasn’t a poet who woke early and wrote of distant trains drumming under a late blooming moon. He was much fresher than that.…