Month: March 2024
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vulnerability
a collapsable bridge in Baltimore onedrive.live.com (my new Microsoft word processor) the trepidation in my kid’s eyes when they are making sure they haven’t lost me writing a letter of support for someone i love “can i beep your nose?” walking (anywhere) close to dark the call you have to get out of…
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something else entirely
when the moon is dark my imagination is illuminated like light returning like its never left my desk becomes a fortress laid with an escapade of scraped paper, pencils, blue light glasses, and notebooks, sure but also, flat stack rocks piled four high for balance (of all things) too …
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sticks & stones
it wasn’t long after he left my body started making stones(‘uric acid deposits’ they called them)what sticks is he wasn’t there(in my memories of that time)in the emergency room visits(there were three)or the frequent rides over the new london bridge(to dr. gupta’s office)i never saw him reach for the milk beside the shameful brown canisters(over…
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portals ::
he cannot bear itthe thought of himself young & curious, unfinishedrefuses even to look at what he dare create before he understood what he understands so effortlessly now –and so this under ripe version of this beautiful man & his brilliant mind sits buried and stillworth less somehow to him now. our differing opinions surprise…
santos scribes 