BLUF
Bottom line up front:
There are better ways
to start the day, some
more so than others.
So Much the Better
there is the difference
they know when to hit high notes
nightingales
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Ablution
First, though, I must drink decaf coffee,
because why bother with anything else
until that piece has been done? It’s not
Left Handed
My left hand has
done most of the work
for me, built a thick
callous on my middle
finger where rests
My Dear Friend, the Artist
Based on a writing prompt from Poetry Super Highway for National Poetry Month, 2024 and this news article:
“The US was getting too expensive. So this artist relocated to France for a slower-paced life”
By Silvia Marchetti, CNN
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Where I Can Safely Be Myself
Haiku wishes for greener spaces and a kinder world
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April Micropoems
wind chimes and songbirds
even the curtains balloon in celebration
today’s open window
Or Shall We Call It…
There’s a difference
between how
the word is
used—apathy
in the personal
sense, indifference,
or lack of caring,
where you refuse
to act, or do
the right thing,
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Flying Home
The stranger next
to me, too close
for comfort, I can
practically feel his
breath on my neck,
or is it the air I
always have to turn
on high? How I hate
to fly, I always seem
to get searched,
and while I
What I Did That Day
An Ode to My Former Teammates at IBM
Heya, so you know what I did? Took the day off
to think about what was actually happening,
was really going on behind the scenes, behind
the screens and the gaslighting. I mean, I got up
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On Being Obsequious
She told me obsequious wasn’t the right word,
wasn’t the way to describe that grainy beach in
loosely translated terms of something yielding
and servile, but here it still is after decades of
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Magpie
My dearly beloveds, I’d like to tell you
and the magpie how very much you are
needed, how very lovely it is to hear you
What It’s All About
You see (I seem to start that way a lot lately, don’t I?) what
it’s really about is the choices we make, even the littlest
ones we CAN make, where we really do have several options,
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On Choosing a Tomb
He says he wants to see Solomon’s
tomb, the Ark of the Covenant, and
treasures that turn dragons a shade
of muted emerald. Furtively search
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Identity
The way he says identity politics—as if claiming any identity
is something moderately pornographic, a Congressional
tabloid where everything is dirtier than he is. Never mind
his own proud proclamation: White male. Lover of guns
Or Perhaps
Or perhaps you would prefer to hear
my hands shake, that I can no longer
feel my fingertips, that I shut them in
National Poetry Month 2024 – Micropoems
Despondence is
avocado toast.
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