Daily Archives: October 10, 2012

awakening

what do i know this moment rising from a dream still swimming behind eyelids i keep closed awareness weaves itself the shuttle/my breath pulse stretching throat to speech this my sunrise

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vengeance movies nonwithstanding

  i want to write poetry about chrysanthemums licking yellow & bronze along sidewalks, & rivaling leaves in their burn or how my creek, frosted clear now from algae carries those leaves in fleets of color into that great lake, … Continue reading

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day of the girl (the sun goddesses remembered)

I am tired of differences– tell me again how this body is pulled by the moon in its tides, hormones alternately softening minds and sharpening tongues as if somehow female minds are less because ovaries steep thoughts in estrogen until they … Continue reading

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the price of a voice (for Malala)

when a child speaks what makes her words so dangerous you would gag her with lead? what code of honor that is spoken or written exists for women or their children in this place where girls are burned by acid … Continue reading

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the math of cats

cats have a geometry difficult to capture in lines that soften & go fluid tapering to sharp angles perhaps it is best to express motion in points on a graph as they calculate the precise distance from sill to piano … Continue reading

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