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Musing: Button with One Hole
Button with One Hole Too clever by far Too clever or perhaps not at all The Sublime twist of words Tickling the synapses My neurons enjoy my dexterity I feel the tickle down my spine Forgetting that subtlety is not … Continue reading
Even My Fingers Can’t Help Me Count
Who’s Counting? My name is Joe and I can’t count. I cannot count. People laugh when I tell them this. They say, Don’t you have a degree in mathematics? I say, Yes, but mathematics is not counting. Mathematics is abstractions … Continue reading
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Tagged accuracy, counting, details, intuition, math, numbers, personal, precision
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Musings on Broth, Kefir and Coffee
So, it’s come to this, Morning Ritual. No yellow eyed eggs staring at Me with unconditional love, no skillet of Siren singing bacon calling to my waking Spirit, no butter smeared toast stretching Out to tickle my slumbering desire. Too … Continue reading
Going All Putin on the Vines
What the hell happened to your arms? I said to myself this morning. Though perhaps I should have been more stern and said, What the hell happened to your arms…Joe? Though the answer eluded me for a moment it did … Continue reading
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Tagged bruises, Putin, scrapes, scratches, shirtless, spring, vines, yard work
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Musings on Holes and Hearts
They said there’s a hole in your Heart. Physical, ya know, not Emotional, I must tell myself. Laughing at it won’t make it go Away, won’t take away the knowing, The ache, the break or genetic mistake. A shadow on … Continue reading
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Tagged heart, heartbreak, hole, hole in your Heart, loss, poem, poetry
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Elegy on an Aphid Free Morning
Survivor of winter, nasty sprays and weekly Beatings. Destroyer of foliage, branches and Flowers. Crusher of my hopes, my bounty and Spring anticipations. But your sticky celebration was Delivered too soon. Your spirited flights of joy Sputtered as I rose … Continue reading
Musing on Gloves and Gardening
Bruises, calluses and slivers live next to Cuts, scrapes and blisters. My hands my Only hands have become a gated Community of environmental abuses Heaped on my hands, my only hands. Branches, cheap plywood and aged shovels Release their frustration … Continue reading
Not Just Some Lamp I Used to Know
To repair or replace. It so often comes to that, doesn’t it? Sometimes the answer is easy because the cost difference is so great. Too expensive to fix. Too expensive to replace. Sometimes the answer is different because you have … Continue reading
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Tagged attitude, consumerism, disposable, fix, lamp, mass production, materialism, minimalism, repair
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Musings on Permanence
Hanging by a Rivet Permanence, fickle friend and Rule bender of the stars. Stars whose Wishes guide and buoy us while Life smiles at us and plucks at the Ties that bind Hope to us. Permanence Raises a brow at … Continue reading
Fortress of Dissolitude 