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Poems April 26-30
Poems written as part of the National Poetry Month Challenge 2024. A Map Of The Heart I traced the shape of my heart.I traced the arteries and the veins, the aorta, and the auricle, studied the chambers and the valves.But they hid their secret deep within their red folds.I put my ears close…Real close and Continue reading
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Poems April 16-20
Poems written as part of the National Poetry Month Challenge 2024. Timeline Straddling two worlds separated by time, I wait for reality to sink in.There is something ridiculous and soothing about this incessant rising and ebbing of tide and time.Lulling us into making plans.I stand and watch,out of sync in this new world I inhabit, Continue reading
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Take Grief Out of The Closet
(This was a post shared on my Substack account in July 2024.) I want to write about something that has been bothering me for a while. Elizabeth Stone had said, ‘Making the decision to have a child – it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your Continue reading
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A Quay in Girvin
Something powerful a monster roiling underneath. The waves of Girvin speak a tongue deeper than any I have seen. It speaks not for ears but for the beating heart and the soul that churns within Hypnotic… the waves rise invitingly resisting the pull of ancient primitive forces that call me from deep within. I think Continue reading
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