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warming gifts – March 3

3.3.2017 she comes home with a present, all unexpected and unannounced   I in my turn greet her with something warming in the oven, all unexpected and unannounced.   how do two hearts know to do these things. ===============

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awakening slow – August 30

8.30.2015 [awakening slow] awakening slow with gnarled hands pain   the stretching is a friend across time   a knowledge that maybe some things   don’t go away in this anymore space. ——————  

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characters arrive – August 25

8.25.2015 characters arrive as old friends the three pines spinning tales of bravery, fear, faith, decency; a good book opening recollections of things known before we knew. ———————-

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Kyrie – May 31

5.31.2015 mortality creeps in on little scabs   unhealing wounds ever so small.   at a certain age the wheel turns   and something, something,   will be a turning that won’t retreat.   the mind knows it but not … Continue reading

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when the chirrups stop – April 27

4.27.2015 things suddenly go quiet sharp crisp quiet at the sludge pond   when the chirrups stop, the spring frogs freeze.   something is there.   fox, coyote, predator perhaps a human has stepped too close   all bird trills, … Continue reading

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parched skinny sky – November 29

11.29.2014 across a parched skinny sky flocks skim southward on an unconscious inner guide we know nothing of.   aliens from feathers and fin we observe but connect not.   stretched afar by our self-chosen distractions, we have lost touch. … Continue reading

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old movies bang bang – September 9

9.8.2014 old movies bang bang shoot ‘em up   without the gory details or beheadings   as if knowing that such are not good   for eyes to see and minds to bear. ———————— to revel in violence is to … Continue reading

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Lent Prayer 35 – April 8

Lent Prayer 35 in the garden a knowledge was sought   that we could not deal with   of good and evil not as measures   but from the inside.   that dark knowing breaks us still.   deliver us … Continue reading

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Lent Prayer 6 – March 10

Lent Prayer 6 dark night, black yet calm. like the inside of a soul that has not yet seen the light but knows that it is coming.   thank you Lord for the impulse of creation.   ————

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