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i remember getting old

...we know more now than we knew then
.
we were younger
smiles came easy
and memories were made
like spun cotton candy
and one pony carousels
.
there were fewer reasons to cry
more seasons to f...

journey into a bipolar mind

...journey into a bipolar mind

pebbles in time
.
there were ripples in yesterday’s water
where stones once were tossed
.
pebbles really,
yet enough to form concentric wrinkles
soothing ...

corners

...

corners

i have walked around corners
when i should have stood still
driven fast in slow zones
and sat at the apex of silent
stone walls

i've said words i meant when i was high
a...

hannah’s song

...hannah’s song

with cotton clouds above her
and yellow daisies at her feet
she danced to a quiet sonnet
of freedom

hands outstretched 
and palms towards the heavens
her blonde hair f...

tuesday morning, pages 78 and 79

...tuesday morning, pages 78 and 79

pulled back on the book i was reading
as if its yawn was bigger 
than the one i had borrowed from you
only an hour earlier

we both laughed
rememberin...

the breath of forgiveness

...the breath of forgiveness
.
 some say the music still plays
 in the empty doorway, shaded with time
 past an eternity of yesterdays
 and melodic songs with words that rhyme
 .
 only in ...

swan song

...swan song
.
you made my world bigger
then smaller
then so large 
i did not know east from west
as i stood so alone 
in the middle of desire 
and that proverbial non-place…
wantonness
...

proud to be an american in jest

...
 proud to be an american (in jest)
 
 i saw the mailman steal my letter
 i saw the tax man steal my dime
 just when i thought things were better
 i saw the preacher steal my time
 
 i...

for only a day

...for only a day


once, so long ago,
we ran through plowed fields,
barely missing sharp glass fragments 
and jagged rocks
and never missing opportunities 
to laugh and stumble over one ...

ms deborah digges

...ms. deborah digges

ms. deborah digges died today
plunged to the earth and they found her that way
she took her complex thoughts of simplicity

and buried them in the soil of the univers...

sylvia

...sylvia

***this concerns several books I once owned.
Some were written by Rod McKuen, others by
Richard Brautigan, others by others…***

i discovered that words are  
like some...

white punctuation

...white punctuation


where did the minutes go?

we held hands and laughed at nothing
because nothing mattered
as we traveled into the safeguard of night

darkness was a friend
dressin...

my eyes tried to tell you

...my eyes tried to tell you

golden and round the setting sun peeks
over sloping mountaintops
while cobalt shadows inch into the rust-brown crevices
like a silent blanket smothering the lig...

waiting

...waiting

there were oatmeal cookies on the counter.
only three left
of the dozen she made just before the pot on the stove moaned,
weeping
that her coffee was done.

dark and bitter, s...

streams of mud

...streams of mud


we played in shallow streams of muck
where there was no black, no white
we were all mud-packed kids
crusty-skinned little boys who knew the sludge would wash away
when ...

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