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Fiber
I am everywhere I am sitting on your head I am raining on your home I don’t even try I shower but I smell I keep mum but I shout I chipper ‘good morning’at your placemate he mumbles inaudibly in return...
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This is The End
I started running out of things to write. I’ve told you about all the wild things, my wildcard parents, my over-bearing, artistic grandmother, my messy scramble for love, our dirty homes and...
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Billboard People
Instead of regurgitating facts why not digest the knowledge Instead of claiming ideas as your own shoving them down my throat like capsules of lead let them collect around you and carefully handle the...
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The Load
We all have our love woes they come in their own unique shapes and sizes Often lopsided Old married couples have big love woes that make for strong foundations Things to fall back on like joint...
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High Hopes
I’m hungry but I won’t touch my plate all the delicacies in the world would not satisfy me and so, how can I be helped? What I salivate for is not of this world maybe it is my unborn child maybe it is...
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Cleaning Up & Letting Go
Shine a bright light into the black spaces of our lives and we find small, cowering things starving and losing life We find secrets trapped in stone growing inside our own cavernous minds bad things...
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It’s Not About That
We take a hard swim in the river before meeting my family up on the hill for pork roast and blackberry cobbler. I try to make myself presentable with jeans and boots but my hair is so wild and...
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Beer Makes Me Sadder
The band is far too loud for this pint sized bar on a Thursday night There’s no crowd to play through just the band and me empty tables and a head ache My friends they get happy on the beer but the...
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Get My Word In
I write with vigor but I can’t talk with my friends Some nights they’re like this I can’t push and force myself into behaving so I find a groove with the music and I speak through my fingers and onto...
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At the Post Office
So full of dreams like me a young woman comes in for keys I’ll be here for life! She tells me through her bright blue eyes through her strait young teeth I don’t hesitate for a second I don’t skip a...
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How To Deal With Monsters
As a kid I’d get scared We all did I know We feared a thing called Monster It’s origins unknown Yes it could be under the bed in the closet down the hall but where did this thing come from all slimy...
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A Good Dare
I dare us all to break out of our molds to defy the iron that binds us Neverminding what he thinks of me what she thinks of me or how little or big of me they think it too often a day we play to our...
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So I Am a Woman
So I am a woman occupying a square a circle a triangle a rectangle a glob of space of air of spit or moisture of particles...
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Love Blues Balance
Twelve cups of coffee later and I have (finally!) completed my book of poems Love Blues Balance. A project I have been compiling for weeks now has a cover and 108 pages of material. Just awaiting...
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Dressing
Mostly always modest, I wear my one-piece swim suits like a relic or a ghost woman on the shore I cover up and I end up getting so steaming hot that I tear off those heavy unnecessary clothes back at...
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On Transformation
If I am to change I shall be the agent of that change Borders and many of them have still to be crossed I thirst for the waters that course through my future person quenching my mind my body my spirit...
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Between The Lines
It’s been a good hard rain for two, maybe three days. The sun still sets at five and the glorious Oregon landscape, such a popular destination these days, is all lost on us locals, given the rain,...
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Love – Blues – Balance Debuts!
Beloved readers, friends, and stranger-angels: I am beyond words thrilled to introduce to you a collection my poetry: Love Blues Balance which is now available for just for you! Recollecting moments...
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Eastbound to Malta
Drunks and writers ride Amtrak. Classy drunks (the kind who don’t drive) and amateur writers. The type of drunks who don’t mind spending six dollars on cans of Budlight to wash down the flask of whisky...
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Thank You Reader, You’re Sweet!
First things first…today, I am full of gratitude for you, the reader (you know who you are!) I want you to know that I understand the patience it takes you to read through my offerings of words and...
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