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    Peeping Mom

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    August 20, 2012

    She is peeping over papers, stuff that has heaped since her death. All I see is eyes.               Sometimes, Mom, sometimes me thinks it would be good to sit and sip coffee and chat.

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    White Noise On The Morning

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    August 17, 2012

    Clouds touch down through the gravity. The field, self assured, lies as a carpet under the cream mist. Bare feet on tufts impress the humus. Humility bends like kneeling fog.

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    Toilet Paper. Three Sheets to the Wind.

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    August 16, 2012

    Toilet paper. That was the first thought that rolled across my mind this morning. Then I tore off the sheet and got out of bed. Toilet paper? Would it be over the top to write about it? It was stuck in the wrinkles of my brain last night. Frank McCourt…

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    Charlie has Sheen, Now That He is Bathed

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    August 13, 2012

    There was a struggle and yelping. I stopped what I was doing and headed for the bathroom to find water everywhere. Our five month old mammoth puppy (Great Dane/German Shepherd/ and possibly Malamute) Charlie was not wagging his tail. The shower head in hand was used like a stun gun.…

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    August 12, 2012

    Originally posted on Gerald the Writer: It’s not that I don’t want to. The mix isn’t right. Too much salt. I’m dried up… But I don’t want to be.   The after burn is gone. No tracks to trace. No liquid pearls. At one point in each visit our eyes…

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    In Between

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    August 11, 2012

    Who knows where wonder lusts, and how gold retains the end of all layered compulsion. The push pins of night will stick a staggered light, and day lids will fall again.

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    August 9, 2012

    Originally posted on Gerald the Writer: They passed by. The waves of storms rolled toward sunrise. To the west a rainbow was pierced with a serrated knife of electricity. To the east tufts of clouds like pale pink umbrellas hung.   Intervals of solid rain tucked me under the soffit…

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    Yellow or Gold, the gift of color gives.

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    August 5, 2012

    Right below is the link to Claudia Schoenfeld’s Poem After meeting Van Gogh                     Yellow has been a theme of late which began with an iphone picture of a freshly cut hay field. Then thoughts of Vincent Van Gogh. Then a friend…

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  • Poem

    Look Both Ways, But By All Means, Look.

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    July 29, 2012

    No parent wants their child to play in traffic. This parent didn’t know so many children are the traffic. Women and children jammed in a highway of hell.   The wheels of hollow men merge, spinning faster in banal queues. Oppressor and oppressed become shells, abandoned cars. No body wins.…

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  • Poem prompt from Barbara

    Egg

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    July 27, 2012

    Then breaks a day like an egg. Sunshine in the pan, golden bubble clouded ‘round.   Crack us open to bend rays of hope on this new day. May our joy be easy over.

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