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Poems in Cocoon Time
~ Behind the words you say I want them to be true. I want the curtain to be drawn back to see the stage as you say it’s set. I want to float under your sky without caution, my eyes meditating on the moon, in a harbor you’ve created for yourself. I want the words…
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The River Tree
There once was a River in love with a Tree, from his bark, to his roots, to the valley he feeds. “I’ll show him my heart. How close can I get?” she sang in sweet day-streams around his grass bed. One day he was swaying, blown by the Wind– all her whisping beauty enveloping them.…
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The Act of Poetry: Poems and Stanzas
Writing is inviting a few monkeys into your home to do away with order, politeness, all of the value placed on this stone, a gift, your prayer mat. And then it all becomes Holy, everything of equal importance. The Reverence for the shrine, as deep of a bow as lifting the coffee pot, blankets lifted…