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 Jul 2019 Miracle Beyond Me
L B
Memorial day
playing "hide and seek"
among the graves

Geraniums
--lugging water to them
My mother forced--
our childish "signs of the cross"
By her parents' rest
we prayed

She-- still 13 there
rubs her tears away

Stealing flags
off other's memories
to keep them as my own

Once while hiding
a discovery
of rain-worn lamb
on mossy stone
I read--

"...Our darling girl,
1923-1925"
Never any flowers
 Jun 2019 Miracle Beyond Me
Onoma
many have come before me--

as i have come before many,

and i have seen what needed

seeing.

as they have seen what needed

seeing.

i'm no judge of that which

light hits...what it falls upon

with the courage of morning.

yet some seeing is undeniable--

the way a flower can feel itself

even though it's blinded by the sun.

where it Knows it truly Loves...

and is Loved.
 Jun 2019 Miracle Beyond Me
laura
daytime
All these boys do is meet
behind the shed, 4:20 alert
dagger of the day climbing rocks
and making bets on their teams
pressing feet on gold coins
dropped from birch trees
and well trodden hills
Idiocy comes in many forms—

I join em and ignore the world
the cries replaying hundreds of time
during the daytime, night time,
onward.
 Jun 2019 Miracle Beyond Me
laura
lol
In the night I see nothing
but stars falling
in the day I’d let you know
my secrets but you’d cut
my guts open and laugh
so I sit still at the table
and watch the bumblebees
make their fuzz-buzz
hide their small heads
in leaf shelter...
how ironic, I think
to myself.
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