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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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Forsythia

…new lyrics for a tune coming soon; about to burst out of itself… Sliver of the setting sun The only thing good in this Crooked old worn out Broken down day All those damaged and wasted times Those shabby places … Continue reading

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Once Enough

I once flew the length of you your peaks & valleys & hollows and all your shadows too I once drew the curves of you the bends & turns & corners every arc and arch I knew

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Wedged

When you want to drive a wedge in, want to spit things apart, you will use anything you can get your hands on; an argument, a misdirected word, you’ll even hammer silence down into the cracks. And you won’t back … Continue reading

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Pablo, In Need of Sugar

In the early morning half-light, when briny dreams have begun their ebb, I search semi-sleep for receding proof of a Patagonian paradise and the name of a man I am sure was me, if only for one night… Through reincarnation … Continue reading

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Baby Blue

He watched his baby grow inside a heavenly body that he’d loved so well and tenderly; it was a like game of magical mystery fruit. One day she was a grape, now she’s a tiny mandarin, and when she reached … Continue reading

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55 Miles High

she flies late at night under a sable sky in that nocturnal haven her wings stretched wide under cover of darkness sheer faith is enough and earthly anguish melts into the black ink above a sky brimmed with grace bends … Continue reading

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Lightening Up

…some poems aren’t literary works…they’re just small bouts of truth… You wont read another poem from me about God or Jesus, or prophets or psalms; those were someone else’s myths, not mine. I don’t need divine intervention to tell me … Continue reading

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Tungsten Carbide

Suddenly the equilibrium was smashed. Not a clean break either; a massive, destructive shattering. Pieces were everywhere.

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