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Neighbors
The little boy
his little red raincoat
I remember my little purple raincoat
it used to feel so big.
His grandma
her black raincoat
trowel in hand
I remember my grandma teaching me gardens
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Everywhere
There's a climate rally
okay let's go
to that
I'll make a sign
But now we're making the signwith the markers
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Purple paper
Purple paper ripped out of my notebook
you're beautiful in all the ways
it says in my purple fountain pen
I taught my sister how to hold the pen
and she wrote me the note
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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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Loves
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Phantom Pain
Phantom Pain
I remember when we first met.
Terror laced in our spines,
being introduced to the team.
We thought we were alone,
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living room record player
I'm six on the living room floor -
the pink album the pink album I chant -
dad puts the Supremes on the record player, the jacket handed to me -
pink, with three of the most beautiful women I've ever seen -
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Green
When I think of the color green, I think of the trees behind my school. In kindergarten, when kids were cruel and words hurt more than sticks or stones, the trees were there.
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Dragon's Bouquet and Dino's Dreams
Dragon wandered through the forest,
Smiling at his bouquet
Full of bluebells and daisies,
But sighed as he remembered
It was forever incomplete.
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Orpheus
My whole life I have been trying to tell a story so beautiful that the world would fall in love with me.
That is why I befriended words and stage lights.
That is why I watch the details of the world
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Wait
It's summertime in Montana, and because we ranch, because animals and plants and the weather are on their own time, I sit around and wait a lot.