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ominous glare of a red sun
its slow descent in turbid skies glows like a hostile gaze it is warning to the wise and fools to change their ways. in the twilight of all blessings the grateful come to pray for love not to be wasted but saved for darker days. warmth is a candle’s flame held in a night of…
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we can now see the moon
i wonder what was the final straw for that barn down the road, collapsing further upon itself with each day. could it have been years of bad weather, or one moment of severe quaking that did pry the last nail from its hold? what a sight, the final beam come down no longer looming over…
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fleeting & forever
one muscari bloom. a mere stem of heaven scent in the sea of grass a pull on the leash; not the dog stopping to sniff, this time it is me she waits, impatient, as i bow to small flowers nearly unnoticed then, in two days time walking the same stretch of road among weeds and…
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the ever-mending earth
i come from a world outside of time all fertile soils and rich sublime i am the earth looking at herself in the aftermath of a crime every garden heals a scar like tattoos on rough skin tireless to make ends meet my body is a walking appendage of minimal consequence; a follicle of hair…
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autumn rose
there is a portrait of her (from 1948)noble visage at nineteen— in seven years a century.she walks the earth with shorter stepsas time marches on far ahead andeven farther behind.now (at 93)gazing back on her life, she sees— in a flaking frame, the eyes of a young womanlooking forward to the same.
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timberfolk
i was born at the base of an oak from the unformed mass of furling leaves first a memory of dappled green, waiting to be discovered. i was taken from my mother tree assumed as an abandoned cherub her roots snapped and whispered unto me, fear not the change you herald. as i grew into…
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death is a harvest
exiled earthless god i go on invisibly life in abundance a bountiful end sacrifice all attributes paying it forward all i want is bones crumbling into dust again soaked within the earth to emerge once more eons into a new world try and try again
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learn not to struggle
minority rules give back the earth to herself return our bodies from eighty hour weeks and absurd expectations upheld by the hive your own direction because no one is the same yet we are common as every bee tries and all ants labor as one can we make ends meet? our hidden voices dreamers lost…
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300821/:/ mantra (for sitting in traffic)
let the way remain openlet the circle be unbrokenlet the way not be doubtedbut seen with eyes unclouded