Memory Nursery Poems

It was covered by a blanket of moss

with a wood fence that looked as sturdy as 

a young child’s craft project, stretching across

a patio, the...

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Ohh dear Grandma! 
I love your 'papadum'
I miss the time when you offered me to come
With you at the porch
When the sun had scorched
To help...

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FLOWER - FAIRY 

      Frolic Flower-Fairy
          pretty face festal
  ...

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The wind
comes in at night,
bringing with it new ghosts
but I'm wrapped tight in mother's quilt, 
each painstaken swatch stitched by her own hand
She sings a...

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Reflections are divergent 
images composite
negatives of dreams 
an alternate stream. 

Calculations of precise reality reflected.
diverge and coalesce? In memories 
Stacked as photographs fade…

Reflections are divergent...

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I
I give thanks to The LORD six days a week. I forget which days I forget!

II
Little Jack Horner refused to sit in the corner: I...

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I lived on a rolling green farm, and I had a love of astronomy;
And peered at skies of sleepless nighttime, so vast and starry.

It had...

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for Grace Haven
1908 - 1998

her passion flower vine
lines the ceiling front to back
grandmother's greenhouse
...

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ARIANNA COUNTS

        Arianna counts One-Two-Three-Four
         while she dances joyous on...

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Then Comes the Lady in Blue


(“...But to the sound of his passing/he sings.  It is a kind of triumph/that he grieves— thinking of the...

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Missy, missy little girl
With your blonde hair in a curl
Daddy's baby, momma's dream
Come let us catch a moonbeam

A moonbeam for your night light
A shooting star...

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