Long Unrushed Poems

HEROES

Near somber guards, units of children heap 
dead leaves, naive to any else fallen.
Friend, you chuckle, but your posture speaks
of duty on this day of contradictions.

Firefighters bow heads in silent paean, 
while polished trucks stand...

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Sometimes pandemic people share
pieces of our unspeakable personal story

That no health care worker,
sex therapist player,
or green resonant systems organizer
wants to hear,
much less smell,
or touch,
or deeply feel...

I flinch, sometimes.

Wince.

Maybe flirt with longer-term
dissociation,
to protect myself
from suicide
to protect...

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“Sacred Lakes”



There is magic 
in your shaman bones
stories shaken like strange mojo 
busy under cover of autumn leaves 
turning burnished topaz gold 
idling unrushed roll over

in honeyed slumber

turning back hands
to face a time of 
blushing...

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Come to visit me at my home,                            ...

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With fascist fist, white CHAUVINist (whose christian name is Drek)
hailed pearly Knights in Kevlar tights who spurn the ebon fleck,
and joined the Kops enforcing stops which keep black pawns in check.

Floyd feared the Kops (most...

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Life was simple and unrushed 
There was a certain laze we had more time
Along came a device which took overnight
Our private time , deep into our lives 
Denied the simpler pleasures of life
Make us enslaved...

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Like a warm cotton bud used to give inner ears a clean
there is something comforting about routine.
Knowing where you stand and the order of play,
knowing what to expect at every point in your day.
Living to...

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Breathless, like summer’s light
Erasing the night, reassuring
Souls with vibrant hues – so bright
Dreams stirred to life during
Joyous moments filled with insight

It is in the whispers of these times
While laughter rains soft, resembles
Speaking hope into the...

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...... Part 2 ......

With snout upturned the moon’s discerned
as well as wafts a wendin’
and muzzled growls and shriekin’ howls
mark wolves in quests unendin’.
With fragrant hint, the wolf’s a’ sprint,
the pack begins t’ rally –
in swift...

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Holy Father
Once upon midnight prayerful
The purposeful pontifical priesting
Holy Father
while I pondered, discipline and careful
I discovered the believers
I crave the evangelic, exegetical evangelism
I crave the sacerdotal, sorrowful scriptures
Holy Father
I came believing
Deep into that darkness preaching
The Pentecostals...

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The weatherman is trying hard to find
Another way to say rain is forecast.
He knows we hate him when he must remind
That we should be prepared for rain to last.
Two weeks ago we thought spring had...

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In the unquiet chamber of a kitchen, 
where brittle leaves of thyme and sage sway 
in unison, to the hot hum of convection
crooning softly from a stove of iron.

The guests hang waiting, by turns,
for their...

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The Empty House

My first recollections of our life here
Will always be the tropical landscape, 
The endless rows of swaying palm trees, 
The miles of impressionist shades of green, 
And the abundant brilliant bursts of color....

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After the storm has passed,
Pelting rain has ceased, and
Ratchet winds have shifted into
Tolerable and non-threatening breezes,
Life resumes in an ordinary sense. 
As grey clouds move east,
The sky opens to unveil its majesty 
And daybreak takes...

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Though we be separated by great distance,
many a miles the gulf between us
Our two hearts walk always together
Though your face I have yet to see,
your distant eyes look affectionately towards me
Smiles to smiles shrink our...

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I hide my obsession,behind the depression, but hte expressions i show, boy 
you'll never know the way i feel for you, when i see you i blush, my blood begins 
to rush, but yet and...

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