Tag Archives: Reality

Travel Light

Just for once I’d like to be the calm, cool traveler who gets a complimentary upgrade to first class, instead of the disheveled maniac whose luggage rips apart in the terminal and everyone hopes they’re not seated beside. When my … Continue reading

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Swallowed by the Stars

when we’re swallowed by the countless stars will our names twinkle in a velvety sky for a lifetime of nighttimes will we suspend there penumbra neither shadow nor light the ring of a sunspot but not quite the sun not … Continue reading

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Reaching for Remarkable: The Woods Are Alive!

This big, beautiful world is busting its seams with surprises…dizzying beauty, curious oddities, power-packed punches, the delicate and the delightful. This is my quest…my search for the unstoppable, insanely charming details of a magnificent planet and a people who never … Continue reading

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No Foundation

I did not build this life to last It doesn’t float It has no oars It can’t swim to save itself It rests on sodden stumps Soaked to their core Its waterlogged walls Barely cling together Shiplap collapse It wears … Continue reading

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Bigotry

Bigotry lays there Laden with loss It has no legs To stand on No wheels To move it forward Like a giant boulder It grows denser With each passing year It gathers moss And loses ground And even the Good … Continue reading

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Beetles Skate For Free

Break me I say Break me like an egg Thrown hard against A cobbled walk Maybe I’ll dry into a sheen A glossy sheen Hardened under a mid-day sun That’s me, a tropical skating rink For bugs and beetles Or … Continue reading

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Rise!

Did the months really fly south that swiftly? Did our passion settle into a slow smoulder for good? And what is that blurry speck floating in the waning distance, where once our young eyes held high in court? Wake up, … Continue reading

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Miserable Shit of a Day

This day couldn’t be meaner If it knocked me on the chin and Left me splitting blood and broken teeth. 24 hours rotten to the core, So tainted it’s spoiling all the other days Packed on either side. Today is … Continue reading

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Still Birth

I lay there in the dark Precise and still Expectant as an eggshell About crack open From the inside Committed to the spate of love That was my destiny Yet the hours trudged along And no savior claimed me for … Continue reading

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Teeter Totter

we’re a lop-sided teeter-totter, you and i one pushes off too hard and sails through the cloudless sky crashing the other to the ground with a hard thump one day i’m flying and the next day i’m bruised black and … Continue reading

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