Monthly Archives: October 2012

reflections–octpowrimo day 14

the beauty we know simply this dance of light and matter their rainbow game echoing you to me in diffuse spectral reflection spinning colors you are not to dazzle eyes inside snapped angles in all directions unneeded sun you give back unknowing and … Continue reading

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if the dead do anything underground while they dream they do not learn, but remember

i do not worship bones or light candles on graves like i saw on all soul’s day after sunset when i was a child. living across the street from the oldest cemetery in town, riding bikes on those quiet drives … Continue reading

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shroud: haiku heights prompt

shroud me in silence the unspoken things you are wrapping me always *** i have bathed my dead with tears, swaddled them gently for their new mother

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prelude to a 30-volume love letter

cogito ergo sum carried by blood to the place i hear words not spoken but dropped between the ears before i wake today. Descartes dreamed as eyes open is tricky– i am uncertain these words capture my i-ness the way … Continue reading

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the bones of it

a sugar maple after the first hard freeze knows the essential & lets everything else go releases red to run rustling in front of wind we call it falling but the core stands bare the stripped simplicity of a monk … Continue reading

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Originally posted on eulonia country:
tonight is not the night you will come back to me. i have not been playing mandolin all of my life for this moment when i am twenty- three wearing blue nail polish waiting for…

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englyn for Roger Rivard

Roger Rivard’s so sleazy he said some girls rape easy smirked between friends, all breezy ***my offering for Dverse.  We are playing with englyns today.  The above is a soldier’s englyn.

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