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Born Again ________.
Decrepit church, ruinous cemetery lay falling round back. South Ridge, Methodist, where we used to hunt for truth, speeches of the rock, power, and how it stands- magician slight of hand. Find your...
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Days between Books
Time is of the essence We have now and others don’t The mail comes in Heavy, in boxes Full of books People count on efficiency Moments matter This is now Time never ends, but when it does Patrons to...
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Taxing Life
Life Taxing: we sit behind walls to pay for sitting behind walls. Wheels spin, no gas on deck, armies fight wars waged for black gold; these things are related. Glass punctures and creates an escape,...
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Morning Read
First thoughts of morning, poor vision blues in a book. Hung on each dark word as the guilty- grabbing tired mind as it takes me inside. Scanning each sentence, detecting its mention; importance of...
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Fond Memories
Stand in a pale room funeral home. Dim yellow dances striped walls. Close fake ferns and fresh-cut flowers. Not into gleamed opaque casket. My father sits, near his stepfather lay. A soda can rests on...
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Counseling
Broken concepts, And I used to use colloquialisms frequently. Is that a fact? Glib drab, parted ways we react. I haven’t pressed so hard with a pen in years; maybe at counselor, maybe before I tasted...
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downtown La Crosse, circa 2006.
Buying the Tribune in the morning in downtown La Crosse, velvet touch- A Coffee, walk the redbrick sidewalk. Past the Bodega, and Chairs, and last night’s Cigarette Butts, washing dishes in the back of...
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Love the way it is
Everything I need is right beside me: Life Passion Mindset- Honest intuition and heavy thought. The ability to make others laugh and reflect on that; the love the will the equanimity; Without those...
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Poemism
Poemism, Women in a hallway laugh in high-pitched gasps Keyboard sounds each letter, each word, each mark Columns and books and pages and paper and carts Hands have been tied; set in motion, all of...
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The World We Live In
Broken bones under flesh fortress lacking compassion, brass tact, watching misshapen clouds float by lives ending every breath they pass. Dine on colon cancer while sipping cirrhosis of the liver....
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St. Paul in the Fall
St. Paul in the fall, whilst leaves change and thin. Whilst festivities and fairs under tents, bearing food, creep in. Whilst trees bend with robust forceful wind. A time to reflect the mess...
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There was a flood about us
Lightening danced across the sky in clouded seclusion; a million flash bulbs illuminated, ten thousand bowling ball strikes. Cut uneven as broken glass still stuck together. Gods must be gaming. Cats...
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Oh, what a night
This lonely night, as I scrub clean the soiled dishes. Wet hands, same the front of my day-old shirt; dinged pale, blotched, and loose. Nothing in its place; bottles falling, corners catching...
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Fall 2014
Fall comes just as our sneakers have worn in Our bike seats touch familiar under buttocks Dying grass and flowers thin; bend in the wind, Tree’s leaves affect intensely displayed colors. Pools close...
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Taking in the Forest
Leave colors inexplicable Roots simply acquiesced Bark came torn to forcibly Counting the rings within
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constant reminder
i supposed i’d rather listen to the room’s pipes bang, & put the kettle to the rang, and have a clear mind, than think about why i woke up late last night. they say the artist will starve, but the...
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Vetsch Park
cutting through the wet knoll, green and heavy, here let white steamed breath. a blanket of fallen leaves under foot with stones and sand, droppings of the night, unknown, as forms and figures danced...
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If Wishes Didn’t Exist
I wish so much that I could change it, just as much as everyone else. The way you want something and you really can’t have it. Like to be independently wealthy, or have the perfect dream job. Only...
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new sunday (amassing life)
the objective thermostat here is hard butter on a dirty busy kitchen countertop. other contraptions don’t work. i am front page, B & C, and Columbia Heights business. they want coffee shops for...
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how to solve all your problems
issue of the day, and then i am better. it’s like a light came on in utter twilight dark. we couldn’t ask for more. we couldn’t ask for less. we couldn’t ask of ourselves. calling signs of the time in...
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