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Anticipation
Days become decades / as rejection replaces hope; / she just doesn't call.
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But the Crying
My father was famous for / noticing endings / admitting defeats
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She Can't Do the Math
Aging Miss Forty / dating twenty-seven-year boys / is done with old men.
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Desiring a Fresh Snowy Start to Spring
From grey Nebraska / approaching Colorado / sun foretells new life.
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When It's Time
It should be easy / just letting each other go . . . / so why is it not?
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From the Other Room
From the other room / I listen as you explain the many, many, many / reasons, things, times, and appointments
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Christmas Morning, 2010
It’s always a strange feeling / when the kids pull away / on Christmas morning to
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On Finding Ourselves to Be Adults
a father and son / once lost for generations / trade rhythm and rhyme
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Flying to Somewhere
Flying over Lake Michigan / at 20,000 feet / in the dark
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Summer 2010 Status Updates (a Facebook inspiration)
Sitting high atop Beaver Mountain / I’m feeling my phylogeny overwhelm rationality / perturbing stirrings
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