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I Picked a Flower and Saw the Stars
When I lean against my grandma
On the green couch
She talks about things that used to be
Does that mean
When I’m her
My grandkids won’t understand
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I know you went running
yesterday
and your kids had a great
first day of school
picture, anyway,
I wore overalls too
but everyone will think
I was copying you
won't they didn't they
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Enough
We'll march with cardboard signs
rainbow letters pretend
that we're happier than we are
because we understand
the depth of this hole we've dug ourselves
into
the fire we've fed
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Not just mud season
High of fifty four degrees
That was yesterday
T shirt skiing and I packed shorts
In the bottom of my backpack
High of twenty seven
That’s today
Maybe a t shirt
Later
But I walked to the mailbox
Loves
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Size-11 EB Garamond
My words don't come
in anything other
than my voice, and
my voice doesn't come
in size-12 Times New Roman;
It comes in butterfly wings and
cluttered poems and ideas that
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second snow
I am chanting verse 9 of my first aliyah,
a bowl of blackberries and apple cinnamon Cheerios beside me,
fingers twirling the spoon, when -
out the window, there is snow.
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Patchwork Flag
To be American is to
Listen to the rain fall and to
Let it wash over our faces, just
As all who came before us did
(not just the founding fathers did but
the children, the mothers, those
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Batman Toasters
Batman toasters gave me you.
They gave me a best friend
who laughed with me when no one else would
and ran away from the wasps during recess
(we always went near the fence/shade from trees)
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11/7/25
precisely one year ago i went to school after election day and felt like driftwood in an uncertain sea.
