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Nov 16, 20231 min read
Unbelievers
In cathedrals the faithful listen as robed prophets expound and gesticulate imparting exclusive knowledge. In cathedrals the faithful...
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Sep 14, 20231 min read
Ink Stain
I will stain you with my ink permanently, like velvet covers the window and shadows light, you will be inexplicably drawn, enveloped,...
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Jul 13, 20231 min read
Cows on Maui
On the mountainside, cows roam unaware of potential volcano disasters. Their sweet lives of oblivious wandering makes me jealous of...
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May 11, 20231 min read
Wandering Home
I wandered over the quiet green swaying grass of hillside, along fence lines with rusted wire, tiny spikes waiting to bite me over...
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Jan 12, 20231 min read
Indiana January
The sky I was born under hangs grey, suspended like a crushed velvet curtain strewn with pale cotton on an early cold January day. The...
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Dec 20, 20221 min read
The Crow - Banished
You have stayed too long like an unwanted houseguest perched in a dim back corner judging me in silence. I fed you the warm sustenance of...
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Nov 22, 20221 min read
Ignorance Repeated
We repeat the mistakes of the past. Thin bony fingers extend from graves, wagging at us as if to say, “You should know better.” We repeat...
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Oct 28, 20221 min read
Empty Beaches
retreating within, the girl leaps from the tall cliff into her own world she soars, arms outstretched, over her blue ocean soul tides...
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Sep 27, 20221 min read
Frida
In the warm morning light, the artist sits at her easel. In constant dull pain, she strokes the brush loaded with vermillion, azure,...
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Aug 15, 20221 min read
The Ghost of Alzheimer's
He is no longer himself a ghostly apparition who walks the halls confined by doors disconnected by the passage of time. Moments of...
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Jul 27, 20221 min read
Tangled Moth
Music had no effect as I watched the moth twist, struggle to free itself from the tangled sheer curtains as they wafted in the glow of...
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Jun 24, 20221 min read
Water, Love
I am the tree in the black and white photo reaching, leaning, straining sideways in the desert toward an unseen source of water, love. I...
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May 26, 20221 min read
The Pretender
I am Blue Thunder galloping down the mountain. I am Hot Wind blowing the clouds dry before they can open. I am Lighting Thrower rumbling...
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Apr 26, 20221 min read
Open Road
Under the same moon birth, death, love, hate, right, wrong - life all stand before us. It is just mileage that separates the sameness of...
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Mar 25, 20221 min read
Career Hitchhiker
I have chosen jobs as a hitchhiker travels, getting into whatever car stops, and riding until I am cast out to start thumbing again.
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Feb 23, 20221 min read
Truth
You are not your wounds. They puncture, bleed, scab and heal leaving you wiser. You are not your scars. They mark you permanently, making...
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Jan 27, 20221 min read
Cold Snap
At 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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Dec 6, 20211 min read
No Man's Wife
I am no man’s wife, the mother of no child. I live as a single candle burns, alone on the windowsill, a pinprick of light in a dark...
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Nov 10, 20211 min read
Envy
In 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...
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