Day Seven, October 1st
Day seven,
warm rains still come,
speckled deer restless
and asking to nurse,
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Clippings (a draft)
We hadn’t known she could scream.
Glass shattering wail
through slats of a muzzle,
two techs holding her down,
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Mother Daughter Discussion
Or I could write about white-tailed doe,
baby of the family still trying to suckle,
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Twenty Something Years Later, And I’m Still Thinking About It
I stumble into it, on it,
living room jumbled,
Lego under my foot—
dark because someone
actually turned off the lights.
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Goldfish
Once, I killed a fish.
More than once, if you count
the 22 goldfish I accidentally
overfed before the ick took over,
Sometimes, this is all I need
Sometimes, this is all I need:To sit, secure, with my palm on the throatof day. Press lightly on its pulse.Breathe
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Centric
favoring neither leg, nor whip, nor the hushof cajole (control)simply a horse whinny to make a country better than it
Why (Again) I Will Not Burn the Flag
It begins with, “Don’t you believe in company loyalty?”
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Working Order
We clutch a bit
now for sleep
through the night,
choose sharper tipped
verbs, phrases,
questions of status
quo, but are handed
cliches
Why I Will Not Burn the Flag – Author’s Note on 4th of July
It’s complicated, really, it began so long ago,
while bent over a bin of gourmet ice cream, scooping
it out for a customer: “Don’t you believe in company
loyalty?” And I had to tell him, no. “I am not loyal
to groups,” I said. “I am loyal to people.”
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