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Musing on No Ants
The ants don’t parade through the bathroom this Summer in their annual, persistent passage to the Kitchen Cabinets. Cabinets which have no discernible Draw, no dietary possibilities, no holy grail of Dirt or sugar or anything. Chemicals and pans Reside … Continue reading
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Tagged ants, bathroom floor, expectations, Kitchen Cabinets, poetry, ruts, spice route, summer, travelers
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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
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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Start the Day with a May Day Musing
May Day’s Call Wet almost green grass decorated with Decaying leaves perfumes the air with Wafts of fertility. My slumbering virility, My forgotten ability, wakes to the siren Call of potential energy hidden beneath Moss covered earth, storage place of … Continue reading
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Tagged earth, fertility, green grass, lilacs, May Day, poem, poetry, potential energy, spring, verse, virility
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A Gloomy Rainy Day Kind of Verse
Time Puddles Hello my old friend Staring across the street Looking for an end or a new Beginning, as if I have the power To defeat the time demon who Haunts your view of the present. No tower, no spyglass, … Continue reading
Flea Market Dangers and Musings
1. Flea Market Scars are the best Memory aides. The purpled, cut and bloodied Knuckle will forever remind me how I don’t know Jack about turn of the century Hand-cranked grind stones. 2. Desire is a dangerous commodity at a … Continue reading
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Tagged desire, doors, flea market, keys, poetry, scars
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Wisdom from the Studio Job Site
1. Copper wire bends and bends and bends then Breaks without warning though not without expectation We test its limits, hoping it will sustain We test its limits, hoping we can restrain Before it breaks, before it’s broken Before that’s … Continue reading
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Tagged bend don't break, construction, copper, expectations, limits, poetry, shadows, sound, wisdom
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Related or Unrelated April Musings. Why? Just Because
1. Bitter tea calls me honey So I let the honey flow It’s funny — I call her sweetie 2. You wear your passion like a suit Little cardinal You never give it a rest My little phoenix … Continue reading
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Tagged April, cardinal, honey, poem, poetry, spring, tea
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A Detailed Destruction: No Country For Abstract Poetry
I’m too abstract to write poetry. The sins I commit when I’m writing poetry are plentiful. Not specific enough. Not detailed enough. Not rhythmical enough. My reaction to that has always been: I don’t care. But to be fair that’s … Continue reading
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Tagged abstract, art, defiant, details, Emotion, poetry, rules, Writing
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Fortress of Dissolitude 