Parents pose you for Facebook and Instagram as they did after your first oatmeal-spattered funny-faced e-scrapbook close-up way back in pre-9/11 America. Dressed regally in tuxedo and tulle Boy’s bowtie carefully matched to girl’s gown. Like a pricey pubescent pram, a rented limousine whisks you away to a Disney Prince and Princess fête that bores […]
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Promised a friend I’d help him move last week, Showed up early thinking to beat the heat. Stepped through the door and wedged myself inside, Saw two cats; the little black ran to hide. Staring from the hiding place, green eyes just say no But the big gray puffball rubs my leg hello Never been
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On a Trip to See Fall Leaves, September 2015 (for my husband) So it’s settled then. Some fall day I’ll come back here venture up a granite hill scatter the ashes of you, three golden retrievers, a first wife I never knew at this place so aptly named. I’ll look across to acknowledge the silent
Gossamer clouds cling to the slate greys and marble of the hills and pines on my alluring mountain. Droplets of rain cling to my tanned skin, blonde hair, and long lashes. My vertebrae shudder as I gaze at this moonstone chapel. Here, I feel small but significant, a fragment of rosy glass in the collective
The day out my window is drained of hue, washed grey with an arch of clouds carrying the embryo of a storm and a summons to the season that fills me with equal parts longing and grief. Cottonwoods bend and breathe deep and ragged under the wind’s insistent touch. I cannot help wondering what they are saying.
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My slide into your arpeggio Seemed so steep at the top of that summit I’d climbed so furiously, Tugging and pushing and levering A large, round stone, so Worried by the chance that I might Stand on gravel too long or lose my grip– Upon reaching that peak, I looked about an ocean Spread in
