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Mar 251 minCareer HitchhikerI have chosen jobs as a hitchhiker travels, getting into whatever car stops, and riding until I am cast out to start thumbing again.
Feb 231 minTruthYou are not your wounds. They puncture, bleed, scab and heal leaving you wiser. You are not your scars. They mark you permanently, making...
Jan 271 minCold SnapAt 20 below, ice forms long clear crystalline fingers that grip frigid eaves, knuckled talons of winter. Snow becomes pale grit light as...
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Nov 10, 20211 minEnvyIn early winter, I walk the river’s edge as snow falls silent as a dove’s wing on the mountain. Scattered flakes whirl, lifted by the...
Sep 8, 20211 minIn Love with Uncertain FutureWhat began as a summer encounter now drags itself inexorably through a painful slog toward an uncertain end. I see what you cannot say...