Up the Downstream
Silver salmon surge steel strong pushing from the placid lake up thetinytwinstreamslosing metal every momenttwistingturning cowardlycoral, glistening with purpose,one last labour […]
Tropical Trauma Balm
The mild dawn air is thick with moisture yet it easily carries the deep throaty calls of the howler monkeys,
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Sunflowers in State
It’s popular among poets, teacher says, so createan ekphrasis, words that exists only to adore someone else’s artdevotee, deconstructivist, parasite,
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Wildflower in the Wind
“She ain’t lookin’ for no lover She ain’t lookin’ for romance She just wants to dance.” –“She Just Wants
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Such a Thing as Burnt
On the day we filed for divorce I told nobody.I went to a poetry readingand listened to radiant artists transformheartache
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My Kind of Hard
Choose Your HardMarriage is hard. Divorce is hard. Choose your hard.Obesity is hard. Being fit is hard. Choose your hard.Being
One Good Rain
It was like those seedsin the desert that wait yearsto germinate—all they needis one good rain.–from “In Harsh Times” by
My Best Friends are Juncos
Dim purple mornings into moody eveningsI hear them every day.They take turns, I think, to check, check, check on mewith their
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Every Step You Take
“Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found
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