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A Slow Walk To Nowhere
A slow walk to nowhere
A metaphor for life
Hills and valleys flatten
Amid the daily strife
Of drifting ever onward
The ending never clear
If today or if tomorrow
The last hurrah is here
Like walking the dog through raindrops
Pellets of water coating my head
Sniffing the ground for nothing
Or something being dead
Longing for resolution
Holding h...
Tuesday 5th February 2019 2:22 am
Ice Skating In New Orleans
My older sister, several other girls
met on the concrete square in our backyard
to test the sheet of ice that wouldn't melt
in rare moments of a "real" winter
in a New Orleans suburb. In 1994,
they were only in junior high
but seemed so grown up when I was five
and watched how easy it was for them to teach
me how to slide over the slipperiness
i...
Friday 1st February 2019 4:42 pm
Arborial Winter Repose
Stretching their limbs
up high to the heavens
outwardly so thin and fragile
but still vitally full of the force of life
enduring the stark harshness
of nature's capricious temperament
strong in root and sure of stature
the cold azure of a winter's sky
interspersed with snow filled pillows
on which to rest their hibernal heads.
Friday 25th January 2019 9:32 pm
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