Totally Optional Prompts
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Calling the Ghost
How long must I sit on your grave to elicit a visitation? Must I fast? Must I meditate on the vastness of the universe of death? Must I count my own? Must I arrive at midnight to pull your ashes back to some semblance of you? If I wake, if I sleep, will you… Continue reading
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Animal Empathy ~ The Empathy Animal
Animal Empathy an animal antiphon assimilated aborigines we are Antaeus earth our arboretum it is not a matter of thinking it begins here: we band together, a braid of betrothal and betrayal the human biography curators of creation we cannot continue to consume without consequence sinking deep into demise we must listen, we must… Continue reading
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This Old House
This house has many rooms. Small rooms, stuffed with large things; large rooms, cluttered with trivia. Over-sized bureaus and under-sized beds. Razor wire guards the boundary. It sparkles in the sun. Then the moat, deep and dark, flashing with goldfish and koi. Harmless beasts patrol the grounds. The windows are mirrored on the outside, shuttered… Continue reading
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Cold Moon
Each month I show you the same face, and you call me a different name. Now you call me Cold Moon, but I am always cold. You call me Long Night Moon, but my nights are always long, bright on one side, dark the other. I am the same, always, and you make of me… Continue reading
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Love
I've looked everywhere:the junk drawer in the kitchen,the catch-all on the dresser, in every cupboard and cabinet. I scolded the cat and got down on my knees to look under the sofa. It's not in the garage, the basement, the attic. I cleaned out the car, the glove-box, the trunk. I've swept all… Continue reading
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