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Monthly Archives: January 2022

A Moment During Sunset

January 31, 2022

An ObservationRife with the evidence and promise of nature,the air is infused with resin and leaf rot.Light splashes a brazen …

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Prayers from Mystery Cave State Park

January 29, 2022

Praying for PoemsThe words come like answers to prayer flags,or to the prayer on the lips of the old womanas …

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Evening at the Lake

January 29, 2022

Below the slow squall of twilightwater shimmers like mercury.Two dogs reel in the lapping surf,my father pretends to chase them. …

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From Mystery Cave

January 28, 2022

WalkingIt is winter, I am alone on the path.This hard Earth meets each stride with the sting of cold rejection,my …

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Dust Bowl

January 27, 2022

After James Wright It is bare mournful ground.The deep roots are gone.Houses, barns, wagons, hay rakessit empty, hushed, bleached by …

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Evening

January 27, 2022

The night sounds, your voice returning naked, crickets folded into the wall.Fields retreat to their dark creases.Light through the window …

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Three More From Mystery Cave State Park

January 26, 2022

WomanWith heart-shaped legsshe mounts the long stairsto sleep in a shaft of warm light,like some tall dark church on a …

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The Night My Fever Broke

January 26, 2022

After James Wright I could hear him sobbingas with slow trembling handshe carefully packed his bag.Tears streaming, he slouched to …

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Storytelling

January 24, 2022

Characters translucent with heartacheare at war with what it means to be alive.The past is never useless, no day typical.Stories …

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Three From Mystery Cave State Park

January 24, 2022

SpelunkerDeep in the Earth, impregnable silence,darkness consumes my light, my body is a cinder,I am the ashes of loneliness. Background …

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