Grandmother Political Poems

This was last Christmas - 39 days ago - doesn’t that seem like ancient history? 

We were in Lisa’s (parent’s) 50th floor flat, in Manhattan....

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i feel dirty 

dirty 
like dishes
in the sink

dirty 
like forgotten clothes
in the hamper

dirty 
like the earth
between your toes

dirty 
like my fingernails
after a day’s work

dirty 
like...

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My husband and I always enjoy visiting
GrandMother Eartha
on Mother's Day

She often shares
last night's dreams,
which too often follow rather disturbing peak experience themes

Because,
you know,
or maybe not...

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Back in the day
of exclusively straight white male
****-retentive missionaries,
the Church

Whether monoculturally Catholic
(which may become an oxymoron
one enlightened day)
or Protestant,

But certainly not polytheistically ecstatic,
like a perfect...

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Back in my fading youth,
when teenage peers
monopolized my only monotheistic worldview
we trusted
to emerge with matriarchal Beauty health
and patriarchal Handsome wealth,

I learned to speak,
at least in...

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Harvey Feinstein,
in I WAS BETTER LAST NIGHT
reflects:

"Artists
return to paint the same landscape
over and again,
but
they do so looking forward."

"The goal isn't to copy
what they've already done,
but...

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10,000

The cows are all dead. 
They died in the heat, 
or so they said. 
I feel sorry for the cows, 
but more sorry for the...

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Cousins too cool to do what we used to do.
Uncles kiss the asses of their forebearers.
Aunts timidly stand aside as kids fight
Over who is wrong...

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Bloody moonlight, carcass and crow's. 
Rigid creatures,created from night shadows. 
Teeth that are shrewd, creeping like an harrow. 
Dyed rosemary, widespread whispers. 
Marching band,roaches on...

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A famous alumnus is visiting the university. I got an invitation several days ago to a small, socially distanced, masked, focus group. It was to...

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Prayers,
sometimes lightly lyrical,
slyly satirical,
self-conscious,
ego-
and anthro-chosen folk
transcendently 
yet personally
individually woke,
and sometimes full embodied
passions in Praise Him!
shout out

Echo in-
voking round resonance
with all Earth's eternal 
regenerating lively
lovely resilience.

Prayers
express...

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Back in Eighth Graded Class
of StraightWhiteMale English privilege
I learned all healthy narratives
must have at least one
of three tension intentions

Unlike sacred mythic prayer and fable 
multicultures...

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Greasy hair, recall loss.
This idiot comes to kill your kids free of cost!
You, Mrs. America, born here years ago,
Have no rights anymore, don't you know.

Many...

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Today
we left off yesterday
to pick up
where speaking non-violent principles 
too often neglect to listen
to liberally artistic,
green and active
yet non-reactive
compassionate healers
may need to co-invest more
in co-operating...

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Gaia steps out
to listen

She may roar in full voiced 
crescendo

Then retreat, hiding
anticipating with global delight
diminuendo

Tomorrow
our first perfect win/win day
when no win/lose to lose/lose
has unpromisingly happened
to...

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