At Heart

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As a child, earnest
As a late-day water lily bloom
As a hopeless romantic

Thrive despite the shallow
Give the coolest shelter
Live to love and fight

To be free from such rules
To grow in the coming dark
To rise from it all each day

Darlin’ Dear

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When I wronged her months ago
She spoke to my calamity
With kindness
With humility
To her surprise, she empowered me

My ego now in overdrive
We’d make the Thousand Mile Drive
And I’d stay silent, in my self-defense
And punish her for her offense
Of trusting me with honesty

She wanted what I’d promised us
My best from me

Instead I killed her, once back then
Plus each day since
Her, my best friend

Her ghost grieves to this very day
But I am okay
I walked away

Fan Fiction

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My fingers, considering
Traveled across the spines
So many, so fine
Needing to feel
Some quality
Straight and narrow
Not papered over
Hard-core

Look at You, there
But out of circulation
Not knowing why
I take you
From the forbidden shelf
Give you my time
Forget to return you
No care for the fine

Wrong Address

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Love is coming today
To this address
To take love away

Stopped back then and stayed
Entirely by mistake
Too polite to have told you so

Now it would be wrong
Continuing the charade
Unfair to you both

Love is coming tonight
Too soon
To say good day

Denali in Disguise

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Ice posing as something benign
Have you believing I’m only tiny daggers

Draw closer
Hear
Cathedral chimes
Strike an unholy fear into you, I will

Begin with me the wintry journey
Dying, now that the falling is done

Come back, will you?
Taller next time
Wise enough to yield
While I command the Summer

Soon To Be

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Gone the whimsy
The ubiquitous hearts
Giving hope
One no longer affords

Service for twelve
Seating for many
Crystal and silver
For what wedded purpose

Some gardens
A book nook
Less kitchen ingredients
A box where dreams are shelved

One closet
One pillow
A window facing east
Nothing at all evidencing two

Onward Artist

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Put it all out there

Graffiti the walls of all the world with all the goodness you can possibly stuff into your every carbon footprint

Yes, your every breath

Send it marching onward, channeled outward

With unabashed hope

With unrealistic expectation, yet with none at all

Believe some force shall, some being must

Carry it all straightaway

To the doorstep, that heart of the other

Knock it will, but know

There may be no answer

But the walls, the world, the carbon, that doorstep

That heart

Needed your work nonetheless

So you remain the same