Tag Archives: love

simplicity

the feeling you lift up from inside & hold out in your hands perfect in its singleness, unbroken breaks me

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state of emergency

this morning i read of a hurricane cyclonic & siphoning strength from the atlantic, spinning a trajectory so wide, 600 miles from the core we buy batteries & bottled water what were the odds forces that rarely cross would meld … Continue reading

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it is not spring or summer here

it is not spring or summer here so the words i bring cannot be butterflies or hummingbirds & i must tell my love in leaves read not from the bottom of a cup but raked up, crackling unpredictable patterns hoarded … Continue reading

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i want to go there with you

there is love we cross oceans or continents to meet, finally & love we stumble over sleeping in doorways comfortable, familiar the magic in it is not so much where it is found, or how but where we let it … Continue reading

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when trees grow in us, anything can happen

when fir trees branch inside us anything can happen like the feeling when seeing you that this happiness could breathe out 100 butterflies from the center of my chest fluttering winged feeling is something no longer charming but alarmingly possible ***inspired … Continue reading

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who knew

who knew that guy, that brilliant sardonic guy shaking wit like martinis served up & very dry would lose the pseudonym, his barbed wire breached smoothed by a feeling so rainbow when he wears it the blue dances in his … Continue reading

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five suitcases (for RGH)

you take everything five suitcases heavy with longing counted on fingers that difference lightening translated to miles (kilometers where you are going) what else is needed as that matter of time when you fly into it scatters and collapses into seconds … Continue reading

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