Poem-a-Day
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Reject
Today we viewed the holos of the new people. If they are people. Their bodies are vertically elongated. They move on two appendages. This is the only thing about them we can admire, such amazing balance. They are otherwise awkward, ugly. They have no fur, except a bit at the top of… Continue reading
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The Last December
I am in the last December. Those who have traveled this far feel the coldness, the freeze in the joints, the stiffness of limbs. I have seen companions sit down, at last, finally, on the ice, gesturing the rest of us on. We go on. Slow and stumbling on numb feet,… Continue reading
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Poem-A-Day #29 & #30
#29 Prompt: fantastical today is a day of sharp edges red roof against bright sky a fence’s iron arrows pointing to infinity nestled between the flamingo’s pink wings we flew moon still pale in the west lending its color to snow on blue mountains we were children then blond… Continue reading
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Poem-A-Day #28: settled
had it been on offer i would have settled for less cantaloupe on a white plate a single-occupancy room had it been on offer the kindness of strangers a single-occupancy room the kiss of your mouth the kindness of strangers is a weight on the heart the kiss of your mouth… Continue reading
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Poem-A-Day #26 & 27: water & monster
Day 26 prompt: water We make no graves today. We scatter your ashes, and yours on the water, on the high desert. Let the wind take them as the wind took you stealing flesh from your bones until bones was all you were. Bones. Ashes. Wind. Day 27 prompt: monster… Continue reading
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