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AmateurAmused I'm a poet, where's the muse? / Blank white papers inspire airplanes; / daydreams sail across the room
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Nov 26, 2013
planting a seed. / mind the eye / mind the I
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Sep 7, 2013
tomboy (prose)A tomboy, naturally barefoot, gingerly walks the white painted line because the asphalt is just too burning hot. Scrubby tufts of weedy grass are welcome respites on the way, briefly cooling her steps even if they are stickery. The dirty soles of her now calloused feet were intentionally toughened just before school got out, with mincing steps across the roughest gravel she could find. Her mother accommodates her preference, leaving a pan of water outside for her to scrub her feet before going in. Even then, a black path has gradually appeared leading from the front door in the old orangish carpet. Two months of summer barefoot every day when she had the choice. Keyed roller skates clamped onto last year’s school shoes were the exception. She can flat out run anywhere. / This particular expedition began like every other thing they did, which was *anything* to fend off boredom. She had been sitting on a cement step shaded by an open carport, just three oil-stained parking stalls for three small apartments on the tired poor side of town. There is a little more dirt on the street here, and grass is a little neglected. Just like the children, but these kids prefer that anyway. Two scruffy friends stomp on aluminum cans, brothers sporting matching buzz cuts and cut-off shorts. They are flattening them for the recycling money by the pound, so the carport smells vaguely of stale beer. Another boy attempts to shoot a wandering fly with a home-made rubber band gun; rings cut from a bicycle tube made the best ammo. “What do you want to do?” …”I don’t know, what do *you* want to do?” *Thwack*… The only requisite for friendship here is vicinity, yet it is still true. The idea of choosing friends is about as odd as the concept that one could chose where one lives... Strengths and shortcomings are completely accepted because it is just what it is. / Their amazing three-story tree fort with a side look-out had been heartlessly taken down by the disgruntled property owner last week. Two months of accumulating pilfered and scrap two-by-fours, nails, and even a stack of plywood (gasp!) from area construction sites had yielded supplies for a growing fort. A gang-plank style entry had crossed the ditch to the first level. Nailed ladder steps to the second offered a little more vertigo and a prime spot to hurl acorns. Another ladder up led up to the third floor retreat, with a couch-like seating area and shoulder high walls. A breeze reached the leaves up there. The next tree over was the look-out, with nothing but ladder steps all the way up to where the view opened up out of the ravine. When the wind blew, it gave merciless lessons in facing any fear of heights. But now that was all over, discovered gone overnight.
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Jul 23, 2013
Just How Does One Eat An Ice Cream Bean?. / Shopping when hungry / the wallet gets empty,
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May 6, 2013
Still, It Reigns. / The World's faceless greed steals our homeland. / You don't live here, yet burn the fields.
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May 6, 2013
at 3 amThe water / splashes my face, ears ring restless / emotions flood a dream a dream of ceaseless noise
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Feb 9, 2013
haiku winter.2. / white fox, snowy owl / doze, crave cousins summer fare
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Jan 31, 2013
Jesus held my handI don’t have faith. / I just know that I belong to my Savior Jesus. I met her once when I was 11, at her humble single wide in a cramped trailer park and she made candied walnuts on a hotplate. I didn’t find out until years later that she paid for my scholarship. She had passed on by then; I wish I could have thanked her. / He arrived at Juvenile Hall at 7:00 pm looking like Mrs. Santa Claus, to take me into her home for a year. I made some sarcastic teenage comment about the stupid country music on her car radio, and she tolerated it with a smile; saying ‘its not stupid, its simple.’ She showed me what a caring family looks like and didn’t kick me out for being a smart-ass; gave me chores and a curfew to show me I belonged.
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Jan 29, 2013
GaeaEthereal and Base a harmony so diametric a solid. / Wisdom's forgiveness lands to the unyielding new, / white spray on black lava, merging
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Jan 22, 2013
When I left, When You Left,my bed became a sanctuary of nothingness. But I fear emptiness. Its close. A paralysis of indecision permeates like frigid winter through drafty walls. I decide to sleep in. / Occasionally turning to see the clock- minutes, hours pile up like dirty dishes. / During broad daylight, the distant noise of a cessna impedes into my room, defining a vast separation. One, maybe two people up there have an interesting life, an important destination. Listening to their flight gives me something to do. When they are gone, I have nothing left but a fingerprint stained glass of water.
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Jan 18, 2013
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