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Thursday, September 21, 2006

Improbable

Improbable When the soot and choking drift subsided, and it did, because I know now. An impression was rendered. Broken trees, and smoldering stumps of bodies, formerly living, far from here, far from now and dead, splayed in the spit of now, lay in twists opposing. Ripped earth lay open, the roots... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, September 18, 2006

She Dreams In White

She Dreams In White I drop my socks, let the door go before she passes, she dreams in white. First year passed, our anniversary with not a notice, and she dreams in white. We fight she cries I win at cards, forget her birthday and she dreams in white. She waits and I am late. Some of her favorite I... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, September 15, 2006

Patra’s Tears

Patra’s Tears Patra walked behind her tears, and the world blurred before her. Indian paint brushes bled their color into the summer grass. Patra planted corn in the meadow by the river. She sowed seed in furrows he had turned in the spring when frost had lost its hold and the sun was honest again.... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Tonight In The Diner

Tonight In the Diner In the diner tonight they stand side by side, opposing the sear of what is outside. The steamship round idles in sizzle. The grill bristles in teeth of flame, ambushing beef strips, belching burn. Formica pink and stained, wraps the winding counter, straying from the heat.... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, September 11, 2006

Bird

Bird The bird I bought, not talking yet but his breed said he’d be, he, I’ll call him that, too expensive for proof of that, the sex of this bird. It entered the house, with me in a cage, carried by me, not he, it, was in the cage, carried by me. not his home his cage in my home my cage, I called... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, September 9, 2006

Tranquility

Tranquility He comes during the rain tonight for tea in the tavern. Smoke rustles from a crumbled chimney, hugged by slate shingles, corralled by copper gutters. Downspouts spew spill from the sky, chugging over his shoes, waking his old feet. Crooked fingers find the brass of the pull on the door.... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, September 8, 2006

Hmmmm.

When you love all herds converge the warmth in herds makes you wonder why you wonder why you warm my whys you curve my wonder and weave my why we whirl and willow and we worship now while worsted wills whip our nows wash and weep converge our nows while we sit and wonder how touch my want and fill... Sign in to see full entry.

Foot Race to Heaven

Foot Race to Heaven In soil, there is a world. Spacious down there, in the world no one knows, silent runs in rivers soil bathes stone never closed never open, safe for burial down there. It’s the bible of your life. Here, tears roar loud, laughing we don’t know when quiet will rule, we want it to... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, September 6, 2006

Still Here

Still Here At this heartbeat, my own blood runs swift and safe through my heart, I finished today still here. Living, squeezing my life holding the hours as sure as sand through the glass impossible to stop the freight of time. An end just beside the next second, a bell that may not ring, no flight,... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

On Missing Her

On Missing Her For two weeks there is a hole in my life. I am missing her, and part of me. It is as pure a pain as I will ever know. My soul turned inside out, made me understand how true my feelings are. There is no blur in that truth no maybe in love. There is a comfort in that absence, truth is... Sign in to see full entry.

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