Poem-a-Day
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Poem-A-Day #20: Sunday Evening
Sunday Evening Beau-Cat Boy-Cat Bad-Cat is on the counter again, watching goddaughter cook. Mariah laughs at my protest and sets an emptied can by his greedy nose. I turn on the grill. She steps over the puppy as she passes from sink to stove. In the next room, Belle-the-Cat… Continue reading
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Poem-A-Day #19: Blue
You go early to your nap this blue spring day, head bent, tulip in the rain. Even blue the sky spits, drizzles. Even blue, you dream. Continue reading
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Poem-A-Day #18: weather
weather you wake to the slap of rain on glass some god throwing stones of water at your window wake up! wake up! a brilliant flash erases the sky for a moment nothing but light & you begin the count one- thousand-one-one- thousand-two-one- thousand-three and before four the… Continue reading
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Poem-A-Day #17: Cherries
Prompt: popular culture Cherries The clumsy Victorian where I gave away my cherry & received one in return (sweetened by innocence & eagerness) nearly half a century ago, has been defaced by white vinyl siding, its heavy grace erased. As I passed, the car radio proclaimed “Just somebody that I used… Continue reading
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Poem-A-Day #16: Elegy
nap eye mask migraine aura pale bursts on a black field somewhere a woodpecker drills a crow barks 1-2-3 1-2-3 1-2-3 the sound machine pushes waves into my ears cat purr against my shoulder, train rumble & whistle more felt than heard who-do-you-love who-do-you-love it’s gone now … Continue reading
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