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Summer Days/Bare Legs
Summer Solstice seaplanes on the lake sunlight floods our sensibilities bare legs, short skirts Seattle, it’s your time Go outside and play!
Transition Objects & Superheroes
Do I resemble a transition object? My son, as a shy 5 year-old had a transition object BATMAN! A 12 inch plastic replica A boy doll gaining him safe passage into unfamiliar territory Batman & I are No doubt, psychic … Continue reading
Leaving New York
Manhattan. June third two thousand twelve Temperature 72 degrees Azure blue, an unmarred sky Life in forward motion Full bloom and full of possibility Then there you were Standing at the sidewalk Corner of West 51st & 8th Four suitcases … Continue reading
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Tagged #beginnings, #endings, #heartbreak, #manhattan, #mothers, #nyc, #poetry, #sons, love, relationships, Seattle
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Bookended Between A Poem & A Kiss
I’ll meet you in history U.S. history, second floor She crossed the foyer heels tapping out the exact measure of her heart a rockabilly tempo Too fast, feeling flushed our dancer never made it to history as he was waiting … Continue reading
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4:55 a.m. Shuffle
4:55 a.m. Tuesday morning shuffle to the boathouse because it’s too early for a bus but not too late for a mother to be of use before he’s grown & gone love in an early morning drive
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Tagged #mothers, #rowing, #sons, #sports, love, relationships, Seattle
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Love Personified
Love? You need me to spell it out? Right. Here’s the real deal. Love is my 87-year-old mother driving three hours in a crazy, torrential rain storm leaving her house within an instant at the drop of a hat with … Continue reading
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Tagged #mothers, #mothersday, #poetry #iwillalwaysloveyou, love, Seattle
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Heartbreak
heartbreak you wear it on your sleeve the lyrics interrupt every thought puts dead weight on the soles of your shoes there will be no rest tonight for a weary heart
May I Call You ‘Easy Breezy?’
If March Madness left you as an April Fool & the phrase “May Day May Day” seems to play on constant repeat Take heart! Grab a flag! On June 14th you can claim whatever piece of emotional landscape you desire … Continue reading
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Tagged #aprilfools, #flagday, #marchmadness, #mayday, #summer #seattle, friendship, Humor, love, relationships
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I Will Always Love You
I always loved you always will love you It’s just that I got scared
Schwellenangst
Schwellenangst unusual for her she pushed herself to push through to step into possibilities less caution, less fear more joy in variety more living in stepping out then she met a threshold she couldn’t navigate it was simply this he … Continue reading
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