Snapshot Poems 2009
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Snapshot Poem 29 July 02009
today it's the koi catching the light as they emerge from dark water your family, my family at the surface of dreams so thin, that skin between today, and then I go back, again and again, I reach for you but grasp nothing but fog, opaque and elusive, I wonder how they will ever get… Continue reading
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Snapshot Poem 15 July 02009
my past came to visit today we sat together in the garden both thicker, older, milder each carries memory of the other each carries memory for the other we stretched out our legs rested our shoulders back watched the koi drift in the pond & pulled in our nets of memory each, for the… Continue reading
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April – May – June 02009
2009-06-10 the lives of thousands rest on his shoulders the enemy is vile and wily he is strong enough to carry this weight he is strong enough to meet this enemy he is strong, he is brave he is willing to die for what is right these people, if you can call them that care… Continue reading
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Traveling to Arizona | snapshot poem
flat-bottomed clouds, piled highice-cream scoops in a blue dish home-made chocolate sryupwind chimes singing what is fundamental? what is superfluous? mockingbirds, cactus wrens, hummingbirds at the sugar water a woman, forgotten, in an outdoor cage heat waving up from the pavement the thin & frightened girl, wild-eyed,weighing in for chemotherapy recliner chairs and IV stands… Continue reading
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Snapshot Poem 18 March 02009
It rains at bedtime. I release my hair from my grandmother's turquoise combs.The cat weaves around my feet. Rain pings on the furnace pipe, thuds on the shingled roof. I hear it rush through the gutter sluice. It sounds so free, so much itself. These combs were made in Mexico. I can't remember if my… Continue reading
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