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Sour Dough

I say goodbye
to the culture
that raised me

I have been 
chosen to be
bread

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Requiem

on my way inside
I pass a furry bee
busy by the screen door

she is beautiful
in sunlight

I say 
Take care of things
out here while I'm gone!

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Twice Untitled

…anyway…I still keep my nuts in the freezer…

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No Beads

She would stand by the sink, washing dishes, smiling,
and she'd shake the plastic covers quite violently by hand, 
to whip them dry, and I remember the wonderful sensation
of being bombarded by tiny cold droplets of water about my body

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The Lilt

sometimes I leave my sheet music 
outside overnight, not necessarily
intentionally

and it weathers the storm, especially
when there's sunshine to warm it

though some of the sharp creases
over the years begin to resemble
musical score, I have learned which 
notes to play, which not, and also
when to rest or not to play at all

the melody is
what the melody is

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Tableau

she sets the table,
beautiful porcelain plates

not new, rather...relics
from an old box of best wishes

days of most promise

a hope to gather people 
to imbibe life

just two of us
here now

opposites, each other
over-lit candles

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small signs

small people in small towns
leaning heavier on their horns 
nowadays so sad

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Chefs Heed

Never, ever trust
that the knife won't slip

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Still Victoria

she's a lonely lady lying
afloat atop the lake

she bobs,
stares at clouds 

hears the cow-bell 
by the buoy
tingle

thoughts of sinking

feels her back upon down
pulled by a pillow or a bed
wet all around...

but instead she stands
alongside shells by the shore

checks the horizon, 
breathes deeply

the moist air, 
not water

this time

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Zip-Zapotec

I am certain that the two young men
working on my roof, are time-travelers

ancient Teotihuacán 

I can tell by they way they align themselves
to my garden's sundial

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