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A Conversation between I and Though

Through the window, from outside, the two could be seen in notes of moonlight, quiet at times and then one would stir from their lunar gazing, slowly mouthing words, unheard through the glass. There was a sanctity in these moments … Continue reading →

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A judge’s advice to those submitting poems

I read up some on those entering poetry contestsDo not write a poem about poetryOr serendipitous love between strangersstanding in line at Peet’s Coffee, Or spoken word… do not wail for others’ causesunless you’re angry with your very own injustice; Write … Continue reading →

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Invisible as the Wind

This One is invisible as the wind Her signs wave sinuously Her effects are seen in the swaying limbs the robin’s roost balanced in the tabernacle The one clear note in the branches’ babel. She is the glint within the … Continue reading →

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Martha Heller’s Wayward Christian Men

Martha Heller took in wayward Christian men I was one of her boarders for a year I wasn’t Christian  but I was in pain and that was mostly why she took us in. She named this place Raspberry Springs.   … Continue reading →

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The Antiquity of Memory

Joy’s carousel of vision quivers, stretching her arms of imagination, my ears are tickled by the din and screech of children Jumping rope, tossing lucky’s, and buzzing dilly dally between playground sundries. Where once, the soles of our soul’s shoes, … Continue reading →

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the waiting

the waiting the mantra of hope, the sound of absence, a breeze through the empty room lost in the wood at night, at the day’s darkest moments, there is a candle I can faintly see if I look with a … Continue reading →

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Toppled Chairs

      The slow crawl of unkempt grasses there is so much absurdity to a chair that never accepts that it is a toppled chair, to see, it is the rest of the world who must be titled it’s … Continue reading →

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Aesthetic Nihilism

Beauty is rebellious… An essence within the march of surly youthful endeavors to always buck the establishment. Beauty usurps beauty in a multispectral uprising against the status quo. It seeks the foreground of awareness, and the ever-expanding symmetry behind which … Continue reading →

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Shebi-Arus: Rumi’s Wedding Night (Khamosh)

Khamush (Silence) (Jelal-a-din Rumi) “Carry your baggage toward silence: when you seek the signs of the Way, don’t make yourself the focus of attention. The Prophet said, “Know that amid the sea of cares my Companions are like guiding stars.” … Continue reading →

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I Came to Draw You

trim-7a789ed5-d6b3-4427-9377-50668f2e562d I came to draw You, and with my own eyes, You painted all the cosmos between us, and then You opened my eyes, and with the illusion of vision, I imagined myself, imagining You. You, Who we cannot see, … Continue reading →

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