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found in translation

...
I prefer the dentists ~ they interpret silence through big open mouths

mimed the ventriloquist during a prostate exam ~ curled up in doubts

imagining his puppets snickering ~ from the gloves ...

Unitarian Church returnee

...Unitarian Church returnee

After a hiatus of countless years
plus an additional 
almost three months 
since a major makeover,
(I experienced the magic
wrought courtesy
a bonafide big hearted ...

On becoming a night owl

...On becoming a night owl...,
no matter whether or not ya give a hoot

especially after feeling super charged
watching the second night of 
Democratic National Convention conclave
ushering a hint...

Awaiting a growth spurt that never happened

...Awaiting a growth spurt that never happened

When a boy,
I wanted to be as tall as my father
(he passed away October seventh
two thousand and twenty
linkedin to congestive heart failure),
who ...

Me very late mum, a funereal day

...Me very late mum, a funereal day...

courtesy latitudinarian, nonestablishmentarian, 
sexagenarian, and Unitarian son
and modest mastermind maven maverick.

Another anniversary of her death occ...

Cowpoke

...Cowpoke
by Michael R. Burch, circa age 16

Sleep, old man...
your day has long since passed.
The endless plains,
cool midnight rains
and changeless ragged cows
alone remain
of what once was....

The Relic

...
It looked like a bleached tongue
pulled from a mouth,
petrified and incapable 
now of letting a word slide over
its calcified silence.
I picked it out of the wet sand
and held it in my hand. ...

Colin the Caped Cabbie

...Colin is a cabby with a proper taxi cab
He drives for all the passengers an Uber didn’t grab
Which means he has a lot of time to kill most every day
And lots of evil folk to deal with if they come...

Mnemonics

...
What a strange word is mnemonic
far easier to say than to write or spell!
It sound like a disease or nonsense incensed to mislead
But after you get over that it makes sense
to use phase...

Chicanery Grabbed Lustfully Repeatedly Yup

...Chicanery grabbed lustfully repeatedly - yup!

While merrily bobbing along
the boulevard of broken dreams,
which in truth measured
no more than a furlong
think envisioning myself top banana
an...

At the End of the Street

...There was a paddock
at the end of the street
locals called No Man's Land.
It was a few acres
of wild let loose inside
a suburban brick and asphalt order.
Plenty of open grass, trees
to climb, ...

Under Autumn's Spell

...Are all these eyes imbued
With a magic of
Soft awed insightfulness
Under Autumn's spell.

To note, in both apple
And what thereabouts
Old carted, rusty leaved
Alike fair does swell....

Two Thousand and Twenty Two

...Four Billion years or thereabouts
Earth has orbited its appointed place
Slowly and surely developing into
A safe and hospitable living space 

What a strange year this has been
Year Two Thousan...

Fall Harvest

...The sky is falling, orange and round
In quantities that do astound
Collecting morning, noon, and night
Even in dark, with a flashlight
And all of this from one main tree
Thank God we don’t have ...

The Blue Planet

...Heavenly body spinning around
Through a Solar System as the 3rd one down
Are we the only ones with their own planet
As life grows in and on it

Beautiful blue sky spreading out
As we trace arou...

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