Listen
Seals bark on the rocks, dash madly through surf, leap, breathe, dive. Can they feel it? Is there such a thing? – …
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Out West
Someone wise said to me “A person can learn certain things out West. If you go to the right places, if you look …
The Blue Heron
My Aunt Lily, a seamstress, is laid out in a plain black dress crudely stitched by a tailor at the …
Family Portrait
Strange, this hatred of factories. I have never been in one. Thirty years my father labored in a factory making …
Sex and Death
Think about sex and death, the universe required to sustain them. Think about sex the way you do every ten …
Palettes & Quills
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Watching Nightfall at Land’s End, Maine #2
Early stars hang over the water, birds frozen in the sky. Gulls circle, as they plunge and dip for crabs …
Date Palm Trinity
http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&pubid=xa-4d7e348f0a767c76. Date Palm Trinity BY KHALED MATTAWA Today the date palms were pruned, the branches taken before the fruit ripened, …
Again
A junkie, an old pier, the edge of the Mississippi River – clenching her fists, leaning into lemon light. Her …
Poem: Ronald E. Shields
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