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R.I.P. Tammy Carper

After living for over six decades, you departed. You were my best friend and I'm brokenhearted. You liked to help people because you cared. You lost...
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Is Silence your way of speaking?

New York, August heat, and your silence like a room I keep entering expecting you to be there. Three times I have written— postcards, small attempts...
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Fate Decided

You saw me pretty as I sat My head held high, my ponytail with my red hair a sunny sight. You looked at me with narrowed eyes Your hunter’s face half...

More News About Bats

They are not waiting in the rafters for your fears. They do not feed on your hesitancy. Their blackness will not compensate for any mess you've made...
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A Steady Carry On

A Steady Carry On after Frank O’ Hara And when I’m better, I’d like a new wife. One who is averse to refined sugar and who does not give me diabetes...
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Hiroshima

Bombs away. (Bombardier Thomas Ferebee aboard the Enola Gay ).
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Inner Wake-up Call

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] … to wake ‘heart-ears’ to truly hear …

Corners

I’ll wait at the corner, Which is somewhere to meet, For walls, or for streets, or for people. And two walls make a nook Which is somewhere to hide,...
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Absenses

Absences Absent of dog or cat but my Dad barked and my Mum meowed upstairs in their unheated, carpet-less bedroom. We muted them with Showaddywaddy...
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