Cottonwoods

Cottonwoods
Rain blossoms
Suddenly pouring
So heavily I worry
These gray angels
Have made a plan
 
Whisperings
In the wind
Talk about cold
Still coming to pass
They lay down blankets
Of faded flowers
 
Bending in sway
To winds command
Resilient, graceful
They sometimes snap
Losing limbs, tops
These angels in gray

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Landmines

I’d like to say I am unaware of your increasingly obvious presence in my little world.
But you would never settle for that. And as you make yourself more and more impossible to ignore, or at least observe from a distance, I find myself fighting a strong urge to reach into the monitor and slap you. [...]

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Black Pearl

 
Dark girl
So long you sleep
Beside me
Black pearl, rise
Awaken; shine, my Love
I am your dream
 
Darkness
So long you lay
In wait
Black pearl, come
Arrive now, we are one
Beautiful, my Love
I will stay
 
Dark one
So long this time
Without my eyes
Dark pearl, take hold
Unfold
Into my arms, my Love
I am your light

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Inside the Beast

With my usual hopeful dread, I enter the monster. I need food.
You know the place. Its color is piss-yellow. It’s maw sits at the rear of a filthy and broken face; a black tarry stew. It smells of Hell.
No shade in sight; waves rise from its surface and my heel digs in to the [...]

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So Long

I’ve lost you
I think for good this time
I’ve lost you again
I’ve just now realized
How much I need you here
 
I’ve looked everywhere
I’ve tried everything
And I can’t replace you
I’ve pleaded time
And time again
But you aren’t coming back
 
I guess now it’s up to you
Or fate
Or the stars
Nothing I say
Seems to penetrate
Your stubborn heart
You’ve strayed
And nothing I can do
Will [...]

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Sacred Salt

 
 
His soul
Almost transparent now
The dregs
Squirming at sunlight
Foaming and withered
To a stain
 
In the salt of truth
She doused it with
It lay
Wheedling
Convincing and in moments
Even pitiable
 
Such agony
No one could inflict
Such pain
 
Such cruelty
No one would wish
This torment
 
Still
She is making a circle
 
His soul
Almost aware now
Writhes
Lifts
Sensing destruction
Darkens
Opens wide
And hisses
 
She turns away and smacks
With her shovel
And throws it to the [...]

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Winter

I stayed just long enough
To take the polish off
Days longer would have seen
No luster left at all
 
Waiting for my winter love
To pass itself along
Grave days not giving up
Gray nothing to hold on
 
White cold surrounding me
Our Heaven shrinking down
White-hot claustrophobia
Clawing its way out
 
Waiting for your winter love
To melt this cold we knew
Dark nights of giving in
Dark [...]

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Credit Yours

 
He wants credit
 
You survived him
Broke some
But drew strength
From who you were
Are
Remembering
Only afterwards
He couldn’t see
 
He wants credit
 
You forged bonds
Unbreakable
Born of knowing
Being known
Others’
Words
Bleeding out
Similar colors
 
And he wants credit
 
You fought loss
Of self
And won back
A bigger voice
Gathering up the weave
Chosen
Already yours
But
 
He wants credit
 
Take up your cloak
Mysterious
Spun in dreams
Held beneath
Drapes and folds
Shining
Obscuring
Telling
At once
 
Credit yours
 
 
 

 
 

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Prickly, Stickly…

Whirring, shaking, in rhythm, I make music I’ve never heard, accenting the complex picking his fingers make. Forgetting that I don’t know how to play any kind of percussion, at any level, I become one with the blend of sound that lifts my body’s arms, moves my body’s hands and fingers. I dance, twirling and [...]

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Donut Angel

 
I don’t remember much about him, but I have never forgotten him either.
My impressions are now of gentleness and a small stature. Brown shaggy hair and glasses. Some kind of coat. A nondescript man, not young, not old. But the gentleness, this I remember with clarity.
Somewhere in my wandering, my reeling, he appeared on the [...]

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