Between Seasons

Cold comes in

Swept from who knows where

Touches everything with stillness

Sound pulls back

Sheets of silence fill the empty

Hush hush - the sky's singular blue note

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Un-infecting virUSes

I wanna speak

Something

Pretty with prose

Confession

Regression

About

Ugly and truthful

Real

Personal

Pandemic

Shit

Wrap words around

A story

A telling

Of a life

A life story

One

Rose-up

Through ashes

Not a Phenix

Not a myth

Not a martyr

Just a man

A boy

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Thoughts Before Uploading

Data drifting

… _ _ _ …

Un-embodied

Meatless

Fleshless

Heartless

Mindless

Soulless

The data captured of me

Sold self

Swindled in seemingly

Effortless

Endless

Innocent

Clicks

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Backyard

Backyard

A soft gentle cool breeze whispers around quiet awakening green

The sound of so many birds singing abounds

Tall trees aged and growing whined around still overcast skies

The sun rising over the front side of the house

The backside shaded, for now, it is morning

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Storm Observations

No birds sing

Silent

The song of them usually distracting

The singing multitude soundless

Not a single chirp, peep, or tweet

Their songlessness adds to the weight

Their cascading communion song gone

What is coming

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A spot a dot a speck

I’ve been trying to find a happy spot

A place to rest my mind

Let my body recover

Come to peace with a 56-year-old life

A danced life

A painted life

A sculpted life

A teaching life

A creative life

Born into a body that knows no other way

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Portal

Looking past your searching gaze

Words drift by

Scenting the air with light particles

Amorphous solid stuck

No crystal lattice

To climb

Outside

Ears tung tied

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Endings, in search of happy endings

How do we find the end? More specifically the end of systemic dysfunctions? Dysfunctions, which manifest in every form of oppression. When we look at racism, poverty, gender inequality, LGBTQ discrimination, corporate greed, political corruption, cradle to prison pipeline, global warming, white supremacy, hunger, the decimation of the rain forest, addiction, false information, testing regimens in early education, which only measures the excellence of people who are good test-takers, or the huge debt incurred pursuing higher education, religious dogma, and war we can measure oppression.

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Rise

Over under toppled crumbling

Flesh fractured

Weaving regenerating

Resilience

a wonder a wonder I wonder

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Womb Memories

I stand on the edge. There is the sand, sky, sea and me. Heals sink in with each retracting wave. Pulling me out one grain of sand and salted sea at a time. Clouds shift overhead. The light bright then dim. The silent rhythm of drifting clouds. Accompanied by the arrhythmic percussion of the sea. Ocean crashing into quarts fills my head.

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Want Wanting

The heart and its' wants

The love that hungers to be given

The held back part kept closed

Half-hearted


Unobtainable unreachable unwanted

Choice eludes the heart

Like a dart tossed - bullseye

Who knows exactly where it will pierce

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Warrior Not

Sand Slipping underfoot.

Heat not normal.

Everything burnt and as far as the eyes can see only the dull repetition of dunes.

It gets in your eyes and into every crevasse of fabric, of flesh.

It crunches between your teeth, the sensation shocks you back to the present.

To Life.

Any sensation besides this baking sun is welcomed.

Single file we march.

In silence.

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Blue Around The Neck

Death and love and death and love and love and death is all there is holding flesh to bone - bone to breath - to blood.

Words splash out crash out of this inked pen.

Descriptions of ideas, perceptions.

Only known to my insides, known by no others exactly as me or I, them.

Still, communication flows, one to the other, believing that we are understood.

Misunderstood most of the time, time tells.

What was grasped or passed over?

Time tells.

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Waiting

Clumsy elegance

Makes shapes misplaces

Misshapes the path to becoming

Stumbled upon tumbled

Tripped over tung-tied

Been denied then tried & tried

To hide the empty

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