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20 WingsRivaling gunfire / ten pairs of rock dove wings boom / and greet my presence
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Dec 11, 2015
AboveWe walked underneath / Branches dancing with the wind / Yet never looked up
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Oct 11, 2012
A Found PoemPoem scrawled on the back of a MENS Step-Study Sign Up sheet left in a library book, The Use and Abuse of Literature, I checked out today: / The sleeper, though eyes closed and lying / Supine, awakens later only halfly and
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Dec 26, 2014
After the Library ClosedWe got the library meeting room / between 930 - 10 / when it closed.
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Jan 13, 2024
A GlimpseLooking out the call- / center window I see blue / jays and cardinals
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Jan 24, 2016
AheadTrudging up a hill / With a buggy a mom moves / Her baby forward
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May 1, 2014
A man walking aloneTalking to himself / Maybe there was a time when / Somebody listened
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May 2, 2014
A PrankOpening Grandma's / book I get a paper cut. / Is that her laughing?
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Feb 16, 2024
A rest stopWe got out of the car and went to a field that I oddly thought might have made a good place to play baseball or football or soccer even though I never play sports anymore or never really did even as a kid. / I sat on my haunches and... / wondered what was I going to say to her in that long thick silence.
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Jul 1, 2016
AroundA baby girl smiles / As a young girl scowls and a / Crone grins circling through
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Oct 5, 2013
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