More Worries
...When I was growing up…getting ready for school…looking back…I feel blessed
for my morning routine, unlike the youth of today, didn’t have as much worry or stress.
“Good Morning kids,” our mom wou...
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Categories:
mercurochrome, life, school, time,
Form: Rhyme
Cora's Clothesline
...What softness in silence amidst the cacophony of a spin cycle world war.
Lying next to your glow in sleep's stillness, careful of your bandaged hand.
Watching your breath enter and leave, the rise ...
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Categories:
mercurochrome, desire, heart, innocence, june,
Form: Narrative
Mercurochrome
...When I was a kid, if I got a cut,
My mother would grab the glass vial
And slather a swath of no other stuff but
Mercurochrome; that was her style.
Inside of the bottle a thin tube of glass
Was...
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Categories:
mercurochrome, health,
Form: Rhyme
Mind Change
...Wasn’t it just a week ago, that Mom was putting band-aides and mercurochrome on my scraped knee? Didn’t I learn to ride a bicycle just a few days back? When was it I caught my first fish – yesterd...
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Categories:
mercurochrome, character, memory, nostalgia, remember,
Form: Narrative
School Days
...The last days of summer sigh,
breathe out slowly.
Summer colors fade.
Mercurochrome leaves-
burnt orange and lemon yellow-
mimic the colors in my new wool sweater.
Liquid saffron autumn lig...
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Categories:
mercurochrome, nostalgia, autumn,
Form: I do not know?