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Grandpa the Master Magician

...Grandpa the Master Magician

Grandpa was old and creaked
like a well-worn floorboard
but he always carried a smile with him
which generally won the day or the situation.
He had just spent time ...

A Whisper Survived

..."A Whisper Survived"

At 11 sharp, the room stood still,
A war of silence, iron will.
The wall ahead, with dreams pinned tight,
Held echoes from each sleepless night.

The quotes I hung like f...

The Kill

...

It's to be expected
this time of year, mid Winter,
a merciless wind straight
off the bay blowing
leaves left over from Autumn,
lifting them like dead prey
flicked up by the claws
of a cat ...

Tess

...Just now I’ve met somebody beaux,
whom I perceive to truly glow
—(oh! anxiety—oh! fitful fret!)—
Somemany beaux (just now I’ve met!)

has flicked a spark of gaiety
O’! Fitful fret! O’ Anxiety!
...

Inside

...Bubbles hit the walls of the dome and pop. 
Hurting sounds. 
Flinching tree branches. 
Feeling bored in here. 
As if my car won’t start.
No one believes that my car won’t start. 
Or that the do...

Echoes in the Locker Room

...They never saw me—not really.
Only the outline I traced in the halls,
A whisper of denim and shy glances,
A ghost who smiled too politely.

They passed notes like grenades,
Laughed too loudly
...

My Existence Itself Is My Threat - Part 1

...I dream of far shores where my name was meant to be carved.
I aspire to climb mountains where my flag was to be raised.
I imagine a distant land where a song calls me home.
So many ambitions—yet m...

Mother In-Law’s Tongue

...In this woke world I’d soon be hung
If I had had your spiteful tongue
How ironic that its wagging
Only stopped when you were gagging

And as I tried to grab the shard
Of chicken bone that was s...

ECHOES OF THE SILENT SHORE

...ECHOES OF THE SILENT SHORE

No longer the crash of breaking waves
Over rocks that always take the blows
Nor even the softer whoosh of the tide
That every smaller sandy pebble knows

As if it w...

Moomy, Smoke and a Pancake

...Sweet mother, Virginia Slim wedged between your fingers,  
that last light willed to die at the rig
of a darkened room.  
You—half-goddess, half-ghost, pinioned in some still-life setting
of tumb...

Scattered

...
In July.
The gym I go to is down the street.
I like to wear those shoes.
Shoes which are dying to run around.
My birthday.
It was horrible,
I don’t know why.
In July.
All I have are July sh...

The Candle

...

As the candle burned and the old man sat watching and the thoughts

He saw it all so clear and as it passed through and the veil parted

Finally knowing was what counts and seeing them leavin...

december

...(a quick, staccato tapping of imaginary typewriter keys)

december!

(d(arkness)).
(e(nding)).
(c(old)).
(e(ven so)).
(m(emory(christmas hanukkah kwanza))).
(b(efore(ten))).
(e(ach(a flicke...

Eihei Dogen Kigen translations by Michael R Burch

...This world?
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane’s bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen translation by Michael R. Burch

Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last?
—Eihei Dogen Kigen translation of his jisei ...

Colors of Love

...The sun shone and our love was born.
Your golden hair, it did adorn.
Green was the grass, and too, your eyes,
that flicked and danced like butterflies - 
the day our love was born.

The sky abo...

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