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Shoulder to Shoulder
I saw you today,
standing there.
No, farther back, six feet away.
You looked nice.
Your flowing dress, your blue suit.
I waved hello.
Wide, slowly, so you could see it from your distance. -
I've been Meaning to Tell you
Dear DD
In the seventh grade you made me a drawing of a violin for your Secrete Santa gift.
It was a wooden framed canvas and you used pastels to create the image.
I still have it. -
The Esoteric Sky
Past the ant on the branch near by
Over the oak leaf twisting high
and right above the blue birds nest
is the clear blue esoteric sky.
What substance is this made of?
This glass reflecting down? -
Six Shortest Months
Woah Woah Woah.
No way.
Really?
Are you sure.
Sure your sure.
What?
How can it be August when last month, I swear, was March?
I blinked all of two seconds, now school is in a month. -
Your face owes me retribution
I'd like to take your face between my fingers
And squish your cheeks until you turn bright red,
And smudge your gilded figure with such blackness
As I believe, you sir, should now be dead. -
Coffee Covered Glasses
I looked like a puppy as I waited for my friend to arrive. Standing by the window, too alert for a Friday morning, trying to listen and watch and check my phone all at the same time.
Loves
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Letter to a Stranger I Know Well
You came to me in a dream last night, as curious and full of life as the day I met you on the playground.
It was the first week of preschool and I had no friends, mostly because I chose not to.
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The Sweetest
I wonder what kind of mind lies behind those big brown eyes,
behind her laugh, which makes the sweetest souls swoon,
behind her smile, infectious and sugar sweet.
yet through it all,
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The Spider Bite
Megan was staring out the window in the backseat of her mom’s minivan with a blank expression painted across her silent face. She shivered at the thought of spending her whole summer vacation at her grandma’s house.
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Ophelia by Millais (1851)
Why does Ophelia look so calm?
Calm in calamity, peaceful in perishing
Why does she look so calm?
She died in a fit, she died in anger
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Your Loneliness; Your Choice
People say that movies are scary
There is nothing scarier than those movies
They scream and wake up in cold sweat afterward
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Eternal Serenity - Sijo Poetry
Clouds fixed in settled explosions of amber and saffron
Clement winds tossing seaweed on the toasted flaxen sand