Writer. Demand Poet.
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unvarnished and plain,
jagged edges at the end of my body.
Toenails
Unabashed sign
Of Winter.
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I’m writing “small stonesâ€Â as past of Mindful Writing Challenge 2014.  If you care to participate, here’s the link. Feel … Read the rest “Nails – #smallstone – Day 4”
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helleborus in a washed-out chinese-food tin;
her spiked hearts and freckled petals
turning towards the pane.
Yesterday
I marveled at your shades of pale viridescence.
Today
I wonder ‘how long before the blooms fall?’
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I’m writing “small stonesâ€Â … Read the rest “Helleborus – #smallstone – Day 2”
Back in my 20s I worked at the FOX station in Kansas City. Glamorous job of getting up early and helping to feed a major metropolitan area their fill of weather, traffic and morning … Read the rest “How to Watch Breaking News”
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At dinner Tati asks “Mom,
When will we get to see the REAL sun?”
And I have to clarify her meaning, and she is
Careful to explain for my slow brain
Not that plain orange ball floating
Up in … Read the rest “The Real Sun”
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My mind was a grocery list last night
Running through the pantry of
Missing items. Of those staples
Of self I do not have. If I
Take a job offered me (why bother)
I’ll just be the spoiled apple… Read the rest “The Grocery List”