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Sitting
in high-backed leather
and
sipping whiskey
the
fire-starter reflects the flames;
the
window, peering in,
is
a dimmed..
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***
I’m trying to learn to fly.
My
muscles
are
spongy. It’s getting hard
to
turn over in bed, push
myself
u..
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Martin
lets me out
right
where he found me.
Most
call him John.
I
like Martin better.
A
two-syllable music.
In
t..
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***
Today
I looked again.
Today
is the first day
I
could smile. Not the first time
my
wife wasn’t there. Her side
..
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***
I’m
not old enough for school.
What
does that make me, three,
maybe
four? I remember riding,
with
mother, the c..
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***
It
took a leap of faith for Judy,
a
Catholic, to walk to the altar
at the front
of
my church, watched
by
all thos..
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haiku
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I
have this gigantic clip
designed
to hold
big
bags of potato chips closed.
I
don’t eat potato chips.
I
..
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***
My
requestis reasonable --
I
need to update my measles vaccine.From the grimace on the pharmacist’s face,
you
would have t..
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***
A
gravity-defying squirrel climbs
face
first down a wooden brace of our
pergola,
proving Newton wasn’t all
he was ..
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