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The Lamp Post

...There was a lamp post, just one,
in the middle of a field at night—
no road leading to it,
no fence surrounding it,
just light standing there
like a question no one asked,
glowing for no one.
...

Sad Tuesday

...Without making a single sound, 
a ball of yarn, my cat unwound. 
Meanwhile, my dog had more to say, 
whiling away the gray Tuesday. 
Barking loudly, he buried a bone.
I whispered sadly on the ph...

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...

The Distance We Never Chose

...

We spoke in ways the soul would bleed,
no second guess, no hidden need.
You knew my silence, I knew your tears,
we stitched our hearts across the years.

But time, that thief, with silent ha...

Memories Lost Within A Frozen Mist

...The winter stared at me, hollow-eyed and grim,
flakes of snow draped the earth in silence.
My lips quivered, teeth rattling their cold refrain,
and they danced—not with legs, but with their whole ...

sundered tulips

...New York Theory

Boo don't talk to me news
He rebegins
Chaste in here with you
I held out empty ink
Twirling walls 
Rampant porcelain dreams
Too many parks
In one day, destroyed me

sunder...

Moomy, Smoke and a Pancake

...Sweet mother, Virginia Slim wedged between your fingers,  
that last light willed to die at the rig
of a darkened room.  
You—half-goddess, half-ghost, pinioned in some still-life setting
of tumb...

The Lost Princess

...deep in the woods where shadows creep
where tangled vines in silence sleep
a princess walks with weary tread
a crown of thorns upon her head

her name was whispered, then was gone
like morning ...

The Ballad of Circumlocution

...In realms where thought and tempests meet
where shifting sands outpace the feet
a creature stirs with cunning guise
Circumlocution cloaked in darkened skies
its words like desert viper’s sting
t...

Two Hundred Thousand Feet

...One first flight, Columbia’s name.
Seven souls aboard, bound for fame.

Six days, then ten, experiments thrive,
Eighty hearts of science, dreams alive.

Si...

Blue Mushroom

...Off the forest trails, where bushwhackers stray,  
Restless Mary ducked branches, left her screen that day.  
She was startled when a Horned owl flew
A dragonfly landed on her sleeve; its color wa...

Brain Drain

...
I took a visit inside my brain today
To check what was happening
It has been a little sluggish of late
Like a cloudy day not a clear day in spring!

It was dim on entering
So l turned on my l...

Mr Ragged 2024

...Mr Ragged 2024

The unsteady slow winter moon,
trudges towards a freezing night;
riding on winds back,of shadows feint,
blowing out the days diminishing light,
                             It i...

STAND II

...
Beneath a sky veiled in black velvet silence
The moon’s silver sliver grins like a knife, a greedy eye
Carving hollow light across a hallowed field
Where footsteps dissolve and flee
Consumed by...

Expansion

...event horizon
revealing outer limit
of singular force

swirling cosmic dust
genesis of star’s being
clouds stellar ceiling

space lying between
all that can be felt or seen
formed that whic...

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