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remember not understanding what red white and blue meant
america is a kindergartner with her hair in pigtails. her
eyes are bright blue & curious. she wants to know the answers
to everything and she can't understand why
no one will tell her.
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crawdad song
you get a line & i'll get a pole
honey - honey! july thickens, slows to a stop outside, get
your rod and line, the ones that used to be your father's. get
your heart from the closet and your coat from the floor,
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it's the end of the world
and the beginning --
don't blow it.
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on knowing people whose first language is not this one
speaking to people with honey-thick & beautiful accents brings a whole new meaning to hanging on your every word
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Last Dream About Camp
i dreamed of the windmills again -
four big gentle giants towering over the blue-green mountains,
whirling round the clock like out-of-sync ballerinas,
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sleepaway #2
birdsong woke us at five a.m., the washed-out dawn
altogether too bright. wake-up bugle wasn't til eight, time spent
rolling over and over listening to the screen doors slam.
Loves
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Yellow Chucks and Colorful Bracelets
I feel like I’m losing
Who I am;
I feel like she’s slipping away from me, one
Comment at a time, one
Heartless joke, one
Unmeant,
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The Table
The dining room waits in reverent silence as the afternoon light spills through the west-facing windows, illuminating dust specks that dance above the space’s centerpiece: a massive table that has served four generations of my family.
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anticipatory joy
Anticipatory joy – the feeling of knowing good is coming.
i know it isn’t for sure yet–but i can almost feel it
the way the snow whispers down my back
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again
You know I think it just struck me I was sitting here reading summer poems tasting raspberry popsicles on my tongue but looking out the window,
it's snowing out
and the trees and stone wall and everything,
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What I want
My favorite season has begun
stark white against the grayish brown of stick season
filling in the gaps between colorful fall and crisp winter
well, fall and winter are both crisp
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Yay snow!!!
SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW
ecstatic
excited
ready for winter
eating it from the sky
feeling your socks get soggy and wet and cold as you reach out your chilly arms
it's snow
I'm ready for it