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Trees

Posted April 26, 2009 – 2:31 pm in: Verse

The sunsome longer days Are warming frozen trees, The ancient steady rays Becoming nature’s keys Unlocking fluid flow Within Earth’s giant plants. When southern breezes blow These creatures start their dance Of botanic celebration. Subtle sweet beasts of green Anticipate without cerebration; Make beauty not knowing they are seen.

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Affirmation

Posted April 21, 2009 – 5:07 am in: Verse

You wrote these lines for me. You placed them here, on this paper, years ago. Their ink glistened for an instant, moist from your warm pen, then dried forever, for me. The vibrant blue curves and loops, circles and hooks, are evidence of your existence, proof of my sanity. I loved you when you wrote [...]

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Men

Posted April 14, 2009 – 9:00 pm in: Verse

In those days when each moment brought a fresh impression, a new opportunity to exercise analysis and judgment, there was an era when I served my apprenticeship in the craft of manhood. The strong and ancient compulsions of lust and desire, appetites and arousal, were easy to know though difficult to control. Instincts are the [...]

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Digital

Posted March 5, 2009 – 6:05 am in: Verse

Digitus meant finger to the Romans and gave us our word digit which means finger too, but as years went by became a word for number, since fingers count things (crudely but ably). It takes most of the digits of one hand to write numbers on paper or even letters for that matter – individual [...]

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Vaporizer

Posted March 3, 2009 – 9:13 pm in: Verse

One sleepless night I had a dream About a shapeless beast. It had no head, no eyes, no tail, No teeth with which to feast. I heard it, though.  It drifted in Beneath my bolted door And whistled through the cracks between The boards upon my floor. I filled with fear.  My once-still room Now [...]

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