Dare Us

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Hey Galaxy
Give up your best tragic smile

From out of the dark look us square in the eyes
Like it’s the first time
Like it’s the last time

Kick out your knee and with one hand in your hair, use the other to calm down your thigh

Tell us you’re leaving
Part your lips and dare us to come with

Warm Front

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Mere meters from me
A lone lighthouse 
Must stand -it must
The fog its job to daze me
I close my eyes and long-last see 
Standing there solitary
But tall
Sending out three calls
Hoping high
The no-longer-lost craft will yield
And find her port
What to believe in this fog

Linger Winter

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And it’s then
That I’m forced
To ask myself
Of what consequence is it to me
That winter wishes to linger
While elsewhere bares its shoulders

As I consider whether to be pained
By pinstripes wider than these 
Or the loss of the starboard side’s oar
I recall 
The daffodils that dance each morning
The strong Challenger on the horizon
The Saturday swims with a mermaid

Elsewhere, bare your shoulders