Shadowboxing

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In the evening, I sat out, well beyond 8:58

The front porch shadows shielded me 

That I might pretend

My bedtime hadn’t come and gone

The smile in my telephone-voice wasn’t masking a mom’s tortured heart 

Acceptance would come and those few miles away, would prove okay, someday

Hood ornaments on passing trucks did in no way devastate

This wasn’t the calm before the storm

The temperature wouldn’t dare drop, degree by degree, with each sip of my sleepy-time tea 

The gardens weren’t soon going to hell

My choice to survive hadn’t offended my God

Tomorrow, no one would know 

Marionette 

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Be my DJ baby 
Spin what you know slays me
Play no well-worn grooves
Compel all my moves

Latin if you please
Rock my world with ease
Soul will find its way
New Age and I may

Now -I don’t mean maybe
Be my DJ baby

little

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Pretender, who are you
Why do you wear white at night 
Is it true, as they have said
That you should not exist

What trouble brings your heart to act
Where others will not tread 
Here upon this storied way
Are you glad to guide me

Nothing Only Light

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Carry on with sport of such great import

Continue conversing sublime inside joke

Convince all around your indifference to 

The light and the breath who did just say goodbye 

Covet the thought she knows not where she’ll roam 

She knows not where she’ll roam 

Curious thing, she’ll walk boldly with grace

Caress life’s left wrist, stare softly at truth

Conceived by the greatest and most perfect Will

The light and the breath it’s her honor to carry

Convicted her roaming will do just great good

She knows just that she’ll roam