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Where’s the Frozen River?

I sit beneath a painting of Kerouac in thick shades of gray and try to digest the fact that I am older than he will ever be. I should be so privileged to pass Emily and Virginia. I’ll prefer mine … Continue reading

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A Lock of Mary Shelley’s Hair

Virginia’s walking stick washed up on the bank. It looks like someone stole the ceremonial bronze key from its case. Things are not lookalikes unless we want them to be. I wouldn’t know what to do with a Goliath mouth … Continue reading

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Talking to Emily and Virginia

I am mute to the rain that falls for three minutes and the sunlight following in the wind.  Mute to the women with children and those children smiling from strollers        back at me. I am  mute to unemployed flowers growing … Continue reading

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EGO (Day 2,272)

“How describe the world seen without a self?” —Virginia Woolf, The Waves  Enter this garden of obsession. Edge growth out to fill beds  with worry stones. Ease your way from grimaces to oval  reflection pools. Exit through this iron gate … Continue reading

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Single Cinquain

They come through the small tear in the screen to taunt me for making fun of their laughter— those moths.

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