Morning Comes to Huatung Valley
...Mist feathery drifts
last night’s breath loosening
above basalt slopes of Huatung
Pacific swallows trace morning brushwork
over Fuli’s rice paddies
new green scented with rain.
Xiuguluan Ri...
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Categories:
unspools, morning, mountains, nature, peace,
Form: Imagism
Love’s Unraveling, Love’s Return
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She says she loves me—yet dreams of another,
her heart adrift on restless tides,
where my name dissolves into echoes,
a whisper lost before breath takes hold.
I am broken.
I see her alone ...
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Categories:
unspools, deep, devotion, fate, love,
Form: Free verse
Of Paper Moons, Foxes, and Blood Oranges
...I. Sighting
I saw you
through refracted light-
a prism of chance
splitting ordinary into spectrum.
Wind-tangled hair
terra cotta and rosemary beneath your nails
th...
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Categories:
unspools, dream, innocence, journey, loss,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
How to Make Love to a Didgeridoo 100
...She inhales the aurora,
breath laced with frozen with light speed
Pulsar fingers stretch through cirrus gauze,
her bodice bending like solar flares.
Astronaut
A quasar shudders behind her lip...
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Categories:
unspools, allusion, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Imagism
Lavender Licorice and Lemonade Lakes
...You taste as if twilight were—
lavender swirling like smoke from the earth
licorice lingering with the full moon’s soft pull
a sweetness both dark and divine.
Your skin sparkles with starlight
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Categories:
unspools, love, metaphor, romance, romantic,
Form: Lyric
Marching On
...Yesterday was Pi Day;
Today it is the Ides.
Monday is St. Patrick’s Day,
Where Irish pride resides.
The rest of March is nondescript
But as the month unspools,
We’re heading toward the date
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Categories:
unspools, march,
Form: Rhyme
According To Wyatt
...Affable people
are likeable fools
Divorced from the moment
their banter unspools
Affable people
in search of a creed
Amusing examples
— of folly indeed
(Dreamsleep: March, 2025)
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Categories:
unspools, myth,
Form: Rhyme
Dear Jill
...When people said that Ruth should go,
I argued they were wrong.
Today, of course, we sadly know
She stuck around too long.
Unfortunately, now it seems
We’re destined to repeat
Mistakes to ru...
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Categories:
unspools, political,
Form: Rhyme
Citadel of Censorship
...The noblemen control the pen, indeed they own the farm,
but nonetheless exude finesse (and need I mention charm?)
with revenue to sate the few, exulting arm in arm;
for all the rest, they wish the...
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Categories:
unspools, society,
Form: Rhyme
Creators Caretakers
...Soft, simple wind go on a path that is made clear,
Freshly lays anew for each breath that one appear,
The subtle ripple spreads on a course that favors,
Fills open space and need to flow o'er ...
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Categories:
unspools, change, character, creation, imagery,
Form: Pastoral