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It's Memorial Day-
It’s Memorial Day-
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Mother Don't Leave Me
Mother don’t leave me, raise me like one of your garden beds.
Mother don’t leave me, teach me everything you know about soil, about nature.
Mother don’t leave me, show me how to navigate the forest after a storm. -
Mother Deerest
My baby was stolen in the late afternoon of a wet spring day
as we grazed the forest in peace with no worry in our minds.
I had warned her of the greedy beast who stalked our home, -
A Bleeding Blooming
I am too terrified to love something that is right out of reach.
So, I dig a solemn grave for my decaying soul with indifference and leave
My body to harbor a sprouting stem and petals of a spring peony. -
Would That Be Too Much To Ask?
There is still hope for us yet.
I only listen to Bon Iver now
because he is your new favorite artist,
just to learn something as personal as
your eclectic favoring in music.
Would that be too much to ask? -
Parallel Universe Pancakes
In a different universe I would be making warm pancakes this morning
rather than thinking of more reasons to convince myself to live another day;
and they are all petty, these bleak reasons, and manifest very little comfort.
Loves
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Growing Beautifully Old
Because that is love,
when my beaten, wrinkled skin is still caressed by you,
and your gray smoky hair is my loving obsession.
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The birds flee the dying places
In the sky
the birds fly,
fleeing this land, for this land is dying.
They fly south, to the deserts and the rainforests,
Places indefinitely lively. -
She
She was told to blend in,
to never show off.
“Women should be seen and not heard”
or maybe not seen either;
She was told to be smart,
but of course, not too smart.
you must not scare them away. -
The Eldest of the Seasons
if life is but a dream for the dead
may you visit us during autumn, the eldest of the seasons
letting your fragile bones be exposed to the crisp air of october
letting your fingertips run over the bars of the cemetery gates
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An ode to my unborn daughter, Stellaluna
Star in the sky
My star in the sky
You do not exist anymore except in my heart
You were once a seed in my womb
Growing growing gone
My star in the sky or are you the moon or a planet far far away