The Sea
I look at the sea,
feeling it within my veins.
What percentage of me
is ocean, trapped inland
by flesh –
a landscape that can
foster life and
begin creation?
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Nature
Snowflakes fluttering
Snowflakes fluttering
like the hand of winter’s thief
considering warmth
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The Wolf and the Nymph
She showed him love and tenderness
Even though he would ravage her and leave her lifeless
Draining all that she is in a moment of hunger
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before
before
the seed sprouts
there is a moment of doubt
was all that work preparing
the soil worth the pain
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We hurry…
Through afternoons of
thunderstorms.
Going home across moist
blackness. This day finished.
Another piece of the puzzle gone.
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peace
the space
between drops of rain:
peace
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No matter
No matter in a sun-rise or in a sun-set
No matter with harsh heats of a woodcutter
Or with the last kiss of the woodpecker
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dry
dry
sand lives in nostrils
protecting moisture within
brittle skin without sweat
r soos
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pecan husks
pecan husks
around the makeshift grave:
cool sunlight
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The moon and a young man
The moon hiding its other side within a beam… I stand there, a young man, a forlorn, and wait by myself you, the dark-haired woman, with a face no longer mourn.
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