The Jesuit Boy
...They took me at seven, not with chains —
but with silence, incense, and Latin refrains.
Fr. Toni, black-robed, sharp-eyed and still,
Read my soul like scripture, broke my will.
Not to destroy —...
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Categories:
unspilled, baptism,
Form: Free verse
Inviting Journeys
...It seems more obvious
good humor and aggressive violence
do not require linguistic nuances
to convey their fundamental Positive and Negative faith.
Messages of eco-centric privilege and underpr...
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Categories:
unspilled, caregiving, community, culture, earth,
Form: Political Verse
Airship
...Airship
How far I’ve flown I neither know nor care.
Much as this open deck my plans are bare.
Of star or compass I have nary need,
But follow as these downy cloud tops lead.
The chilly breez...
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Categories:
unspilled, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
In City
...I still walk your streets
for the untended curb,
the flattened can,
the half-opened shade.
I am in the dark,
unspilled light,
uninspected.
I am caught
in the city of cautious...
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Categories:
unspilled, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Rain
...These memories;
Waves that crashed,
drip by drip
collect in my hands. Unspilled,
not yet.
Everyday I see people walking on.
I walk on.
No trail in the sky.
No shadow against the Earth.
I wal...
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Categories:
unspilled, analogy, career, change, earth,
Form: Free verse