humdrum and the curl of q rat my rascal tassel lasso me with macaroni broken handcuff kerchief mashup attitudes my latitudinals my longings lush like afterthoughts or catnip dreamscapes scrape my neck nape break my brow my sweatlodge leering quality…
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Two Dogs Playing in the Snow, Perkins Trail, Cuyahoga Valley National Park January 2, 2013 Just up the hill from Everett Covered Bridge in a place where horse trail flattens into an old farm road two dogs bound forth in…
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Winter Haiga Frosted white lake with patterns of jagged cracks below deep blue sky – Landis SNOW GHAZAL A dizzy mote is the brother of snow. A hushed echo is the mother of snow. Many-souled storms press against my bodies….
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The Breaks Snow echoed on the shelter with breath wet on the red bag we slept inside as a white forest grew from the night. Grey smoke arose against a hill in fog, the winds revealed a canyon of stone…
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WINTER Sunshine mind in a dark house, thousands of sisters, brothers and my mom Honey all winter long ~ Lady Next…
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Tarot I opened the window tonight And night jasmine pulled thread From an angel’s wing, A quiet prayer for my tears Hafiz speaks of the sacred in divine everyday tasks— listening to the wind, being in the moment The fire…
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Christmas (after we all get time machines) Time machines, when they finally get invented, will be a real disappointment. Turns out, you can’t go backward — no trips to see Lincoln or the first Christmas Only forward. Soon they will…
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WINTER SONG You were surprised that Heaven is winter (no blossoms but billows no harps but fiddles no halos but hats no doves but owls no clouds but cliffs no lily but crocus no silk but down no dawn but…
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Hibernal Solstice We gather in wetlands in rain to celebrate sunless winter solstice reading poems. Four of us on Heron Boardwalk Trail cross river from Towpath Trail, ice on water, water in air. Papers limp wet with word sing our…
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Dear Occupants, Accidents & Occidentals Just yesterday it was yesterday Now it’s already today Confuse not mercy with weakness Confuse weakness not with an upset liver And confuse not an upset liver with love It is the shape of the…