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Sigh

This sigh dissolves all
my heartsick wounded fretting
glacier to meadow
Posted on June 21, 2022May 25, 2022Tags change, haiku, poetryLeave a comment on Sigh

Makeover

I want the quick fix
radical transformation
makeover montage

In lieu of the miracle question
(if I woke tomorrow and)
let's cut to the miracle

But here I am
breathing slowly
water wearing away stone
Posted on March 10, 2022February 28, 2022Tags change, free-verse, poetryLeave a comment on Makeover

Remember

Remember your death
My thumb traced each cross
     Man, addicted
     Woman, afraid

You began as dust
dust your destination
     Driver, impatient
     Pedestrian, astray

We marked each other
with cold fingers
     Bless you, brother
     Pray for me, sister

Ash and oil whispher:
     Remember your life
Posted on January 20, 2022January 4, 2022Tags change, death, free-verse, Lent, poetryLeave a comment on Remember

Last Night

Last night I dreamed
a false choice between
past and present

Woke knowing
I can live
neither again

Instead today
I trust a third way
lies ahead

And loving hands
to guide me
Posted on January 16, 2022January 4, 2022Tags change, free-verse, poetryLeave a comment on Last Night

Twenty

What are these twenty
more or less
hauled beneath my skin
these days and years?

The weight of grief
my own, others'
debris of hope
disrupted

Do I set this down
as a stone, an anvil (anchor)
or poured as dusty spoonfuls
along a leafy path?

Whatever means
slow or sudden
I lift, lightened
lighter, alight
Posted on January 15, 2022January 4, 2022Tags change, free-verse, poetry, weightLeave a comment on Twenty

End

It is the end of our beginning.

Winston Churchill
I shudder to think it
This transformation is 
more than I know the
heart can take. The end
of me, of this, of
us is here, and our
death is the beginning
Posted on December 7, 2021December 4, 2021Tags change, free-verse, poetryLeave a comment on End

Clutch

It's time to slip behind the wheel again
stretch fingers across smooth leather
ride the rhythm of advancing gears
and accelerate into the next great thing.
Gas, clutch, shift
But now, here:
Objects in mirror are sadder than they appear.
Posted on November 30, 2021November 26, 2021Tags change, free-verse, poetryLeave a comment on Clutch

Change

Change alone is unchanging. ~Heraclitus

Change, my dearest companion
alone in her constancy
is in my waking, sleeping
unchanging in her devotion
Posted on October 26, 2021Tags change, free-verse, golden shovel, poetry1 Comment on Change
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