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Dreamworld

one does not question their dreams when dreaming

and so, I do not question my love for you

everything makes sense

no matter what the so-called real world

is scheming

to do

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Liminal Spring

Is it April already?

Have we renounced the jittery cold for troubled skies on the verge of ruination, on an impatient precipice, blustery and wet?

Are there burgeoning blossoms waiting to showcase their fireworks in an ever earlier Spring? Have we witnessed any true flourish as of yet?

Or, do we cradle the weight of the wait? It is April. Summer is still at arm's length. For now, weather warnings and the Sun in a delicate duet.

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Cosmos

Under an oil-slick sky, I trace a line between stars to spell your name. Up there is a poetic cosmos, and it now includes a mention of you.

And now my eyes long for comets, a vessel to board. I fear that laying here in this carpet of bluegrass, I might persist long past the dew.

Long enough, and my cells might seep into the soil. Though, perhaps an asteroid might stray, explode us all into an infinite expanse of dust.

I contemplate my dispersal across nothing's haze, such that I might surround you, hold you captive in a luminous cloud of feverish laughter, silly lust.

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I want to have brunch with you

hey, who wants to go to brunch with me? I don't want to go alone. but I want french toast with whip on top. and I want bottomless coffee that isn't my typical region. and maybe some seasoned potato wedges. and maybe a mimosa. no, definitely a mimosa. yes, a mimosa. we'll walk over to the café-restaurant (in that order) there in the sunshine, and walk our way back home in the sunshine. maybe we'll see a dog or two. when we pay la cuenta, we'll leave a big tip and brighten our server's day. and when we leave, we'll tell our server to tell the hostess that a customer thinks she's really cute. and then once we're home we'll read books (worn paperbacks from the library) on the porch. the hedge had to be cut short, so passersby will see us and wave, and we'll say good morning even though it's 1 PM.

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Shopping Cart

I saw you running and riding a hobbled shopping cart through the market parking lot & it gave me such joy

my day so brightened though the sun was already out your shadow was bounding; it no longer touched the ground

I hope you have fun today, I hope that I will, too though I've been unplugged for some time my optimism is now fully charged

so, thank you for sharing your charm I will keep your smile in my favourite jeans' pocket & no longer take for granted my trips to buy yogurt and bread

[author's note: I love my lines in bold; the air is warm and light, and today I will appreciate my poem; I am truly happy]

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65°

Not every inch of this strip of film we call life presents itself in shades of gray. Hot coffee. Iced coffee. Not one hungry tongue will take it at 65 degrees.

If the door is not closed, it is by definition open, and I will invite myself in. In flight, or grounded, migrating birds know where they want to be.

If I say that I adore you, I will make no qualifying statement. And like you, I am not meant for the middle. Take me whole, or take nothing of me.

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Maps

the pressure in the air was more than a suggestion and it pressed down on my loose, lost thoughts

white skies, hazy fog lacking purpose buildings and trees, gray silhouettes

for me, everything was a blank, empty canvas wholly unfinished, not yet boldened by a frame

the vastness of it all left me trembling my life balance dancing on uneven ground

how to navigate, wander, draw new maps trusting that there's a welcoming at the end

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I forgot about world poetry day. it was yesterday, 21 march.

I've written a surprising number of poems that contain "world"

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untitled (deer)

The blackberry bushes snarled, baring their teeth. Still, the deer persisted, feasted on the fruit, a sweetest treat.

I know your thorns, but I will nonetheless fawn over you.

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#I think about you every day

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A day off.

I need an old glass Coke bottle I need a cut flower in bloom I need a tonne of cute knick-knacks in my blue-walled living room

I need a French waiter on call I need warm baguette, balsamic, and oil I need dessert to be the next chapter a dulcet delicacy to help me uncoil

I need a soft red velvet couch I need a silent on my screen I need pratfalls and gags and to rewind to my favourite scene

I need a day to melt into respite I need to reconfigure my spent, aching soul I need all the math to add up to something and to once again feel whole

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to the ocean, flow

be patient snow is a slow river but it will get there eventually

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Intercontinental letters, sketches of the horizon

An extended stroke of the pen, straight across the full page Noting in his ink, "What we see, only Sea"

"We stand on cleaved continents" Then continued to write, at each end of the line, "you" and "me"

"Fold this paper down the middle, and we will be transformed, our anguished hearts in union, forever will be"

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Continents

I gathered your beaten soul from the mud cradled it so devotedly in my arms and threw it into the river into the water not to drown but for it to be cleansed and to drift out to open seas to sway with optimistic turtles and whales to see continent after continent, even if from afar to let your body travel without thinking not a single weight upon your mind aloft on the Earth's salty tears welcomed, but observant to witness, know wellness to understand your own place to embrace the feel of the air outside you for your own salty tears to provide compassion

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