Against the Silence
Against the Silence: Everything feels so dull. I can’t sit quietly. A silent prayer feels like vulnerability; I hear only …
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I Breathe Anyway I built walls not to keep people out but to hold myself together. I learned to keep my voice stea…
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Leaping Frogs
Leaping Frogs Liken them to a series of leaping frogs. Those wanting events to be moving swiftly forward with no back…
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Healthy Feet Grounding
Healthy Feet Grounding The easing of pain, the shaping of bones. Time doesn’t saunter, but we can, and dance to the …
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Subtrahends
Subtrahends Inside a neighborhood school, there’s a criminal mind, with a catch dog slant, and a hookah strangle. The …
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Exhaustless Erudition
Exhaustless Erudition Three wishes from a genie, All I'm sure about now is the first: Time and capacity …
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Dame Edith Sitwell
Dame Edith Sitwell Dame Edith Sitwell sat by her inkwell aware she had…
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Island
Island Somewhere inside my shipwrecked soul there should be an island of calm, I remember visiting it once. There wa…
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Stopping by Frost on a Snowy Evening
Stopping by Frost on a Snowy Evening Whose words these are, I think I know. so many books to look through though— perh…
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For Grandma
For Grandma Hold a button as you go by or you will be the next to die , said by someone who never lied: Important …
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Being Before
Being Before I haven’t much time— this clock has no face, no heart, only hands turning, one stroking over another, hour…
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The Treaty of Baxter Street
The Treaty of Baxter Street “Look at that!” Wilbur pointed to an object sitting near the donation receptacle. “Who do…
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i found you sleeping in my seat
I found you sleeping in my seat (for a family of Ukrainian refugees) The train goes on as forests change to cities alon…
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Hollyhocks
Hollyhocks I asked you for lupins because of their bushy tails waving high there in the meadows because they come colou…
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Lessons from a Small Piece of Land
Lessons from a Small Piece of Land When we left Johannesburg, South Africa, we told everyone we were moving to “the coun…
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