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Hurry, Hurry! I’m late for a very i.portant date Like the White Rabbit, I am often scurrying to and fro Usually with multiple children in tow. And it never fails, No matter where I’ve hurried off to- It is more of the same Life has…

Its dark And I’m scared I don’t know how to explain this feeling One person on my right Another on my left They begin to pull in opposite directions As if I was a doll that two kids were fighting over I feel the desires…

Cat cry breaks the night right under my bedroom window. It has a burgundy wildness that is the opposite of my outward tame energy.   We are not adversaries, this cat and I. we compliment each Like autumn and spring like sky and sea..  …

Call me. I thought I would sail. Whenever my hypos get me to knocking people’s hats off I get to sea as soon as I can. All men cherish the ocean washed by waves and cooled by breezes. Thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed…

Here we are now, a new day technically. Distracted still by my delicious company. So here we go again with the simple syllable counts… Kiss me now Tomorrow awaits As do I

Three old hermits Three old hermits, so simple Arrived on the island Following a radiant light Holding hands and running upon the waves They cried as they reached And continue to walk on water (Erasure poem: text taken from Chapter 30, The Law of Miracles,…

Dear Former Self Age 14 So what if you like girls?   Dear Former Self Age 17 I know what he did to you, it was not okay. Please go tell someone.   Dear Former Self Age 21 I know you like how it feels…

There, right there on the living room floor lays the last of an old growth forest.   Hemlock, military- tight straight grain that never again will smell the rain, the hungry draped mosses, the first sun of summer solstice.   Even horizontal with death, this…