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Beneath the Gilding

...The corrupt officer schemed throughout his years,
Amassing great wealth beyond his peers.
But once retired, his heart did stir,
He dreamed to be known as patriot and social worker.

The social w...

The Spell of the Blessed Water Diviner

...
They called him the dosser.
A blessed man with a crooked, 
bent and wobbly wishbone of wire,
held tight in clenched fist. 
He fossicks spellbound 
for water hiding deep below
in the groundwat...

Curves

...
An easy type of quilting 
Is to sew two fabric squares 
Which are pinned and lined up neatly;
Nothing else, for ease, compares.

Once you make the shapes more complex,
Like a triangle or curv...

Seaside Suicide

...The waves grow larger as they draw near
I just want to disappear
The white water crashes against the jagged rock shore
I really thought that there’d be more 
The air is salty and the breeze sings...

Fault Lines of a Life

...We drift, unaware—
years merge into moments,
promises fall by the wayside, collect dust.

If we could backtrack every decision,
each fault line of our days,
would we discover we really lived
o...

Bustling Brainwaves

...Bustling brainwaves bring it to life  
better when both eyes are blanketed;
Hyperactive insomnia’s strife;

Gears inside feel like a hamster’s wheel,
it keeps going and going won’t stop;
Blinki...

Motherland

...


"Motherland"

The “Removed”,
Charlestons across the keyboard,

fingers have a personality and a mind 
of their own, don’t you agree?

the stalwart mind converses wit...

Is It Me

...Is it me? Is it you?
Is there nothing we can do?
But grasp... both sword and bow
To the valley death below.

And in revenge... make bittersweet
The cost I bear for your defeat...
Where we embr...

Chasing a Unicorn

...I need to get a box to hold the pieces of my life together. Because they're falling out of place awfully fast. Every day I look into the mirror and ask myself, how much longer can all this possibly l...

Back Track

...Near my house in the back,
bit lost on a sidetrack,
along the grassy track.

Turned a bit to backtrack,
closer is the right tack,
near my house in the back.

Yet things went out of whack,
mo...

Largest Geode Coffee Table Please

...I want the biggest geode coffee table I can get he told the geologist.
Better backtrack I said to my cousin, knowing who he was speaking with.
It is going to be pricey, the geologist warned him, an...

Treasured Experience

...You're gone from my life, but you still
Sit by my side; a breath to fill.
And say, "You can do it, and will."

If I could bring you back.

Do you recall when I met you?
You touched me, shiver ...

Around You

...My planets evolve around you
Like the triumphant sun in the spacious galaxies
My regrets dissolve away too
Like rock, reduced to pure crystal sand at ease

Chasing after you like a shooting star...

Disarray and Dismay

...I’ve endured a thousand thunderstorms in my brain
I’ve cured a thousand more to feel your rainfall’s pain
I’m apologetic for the wrongs I’ve done to you and all,
But I will not fall for your gain’...

Fuctosee Entry Number Hy- Tium

...I use to watch my ole man
Make 3 ton piles of sawdust
Into press bricks. He'd go into
Town with his truck loaded and
a concession stand and sell the
wood rocks and rice noodle soup
on the weeke...

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