She trembles with fear
Her hand shakes
As the wine glass is raised to lips
Ever thirsty
Ever quenched
Ever dry
Ever hungry
Ever spitting
Foulness and stench
All the children have been killed
The mothers...
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There is no deep forest
to explore
No high desert
chalky sunset colors
purple and peach
No great expanse of lawn
dotted with morning deer
grazing
No gardener’s palette
and beyond
a creek or
the staying...
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Just for a moment
Or an afternoon
I’d like to be ten again
To be sitting in
My grandmother’s kitchen
Feeling uneasy
With the immense serenity
Of her place
Hearing her tell me
I’m a good...
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I am the shadowy figure in dreams of people who have seen me drive by or spoken to me in the grocery store and I seem to say something quite directly to someone and it just slips right past their awake mind...
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