Can you?
Can you still manage
to care for the vulnerable?
Ever have a morning where everything
seems to bother you? Where coffee filters
conjoin like slurwords, and not even your longest thumbnail
can separate what has become what?
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I’m looking at the details.
The smaller picture.
Minutia of goose plume,
Meditation on a feather in the vase on my windowsill Read More »
What I’m not thinking about is the lawn mower,
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they tell me my dog has rare lymphoma.she lies on the bed in my office,listens to cello music. sheloves the
I am watching my farm dog
limp and
trip
on stairs,
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I am working on being more intentional, directlyasking the day’s nimbus for its vascular biceps,afternoon for its ability—no, serenity—to sleep
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Everyone has a tattoo—
or two, or three,
skin and bank the limit.
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This is my postcard to me and you.
You are good. Not just
good enough. Not okay,
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After a while,I am tired of trees.Not the woody-armed entity,bigmouthed and knotty nosed,that watches over our home.Not the longstanding gatheringof
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My homeland speaks
in tongues. Gone too far
to roll back vein and gristle.
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Day seven,
warm rains still come,
speckled deer restless
and asking to nurse,
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We hadn’t known she could scream.
Glass shattering wail
through slats of a muzzle,
two techs holding her down,
Clippings (a draft) Read More »
I stumble into it, on it,
living room jumbled,
Lego under my foot—
dark because someone
actually turned off the lights.
Twenty Something Years Later, And I’m Still Thinking About It Read More »