LACUNA

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I wonder what life’s about
I wonder why the lights are out
I wonder why the door opens after I leave
when I come back closes right in front of me
no key or solution
left to walk back to the world of pollution
I wonder what heaven’s like
and I wonder about the rebirth of life
I wonder why there’s so many […]

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reeling, moving
forward as the strangeness of my fingers
compliments my ambitions and this ice dance frolic
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He cried out to me in that dark night behind the porch and sidewalk. Just a sweet lullaby
of a man lost on a sweet fairytale trip. So, I guess I should walk down to visit him. To be
cordial.
I guess. But the dream, he forgot to mention contained three babies and two mothers.
Everyone else but me.
A […]

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Let me slowly ease down this silk rope
Tied on my faithless dog
Ma, remember the time I said I hated you,
Well, I don’t and,
          I don’t know how I can start to be entranced by light and dark with this spiral
ing melancholy that I feel underneath this swell, but where did she go?
Mama          rock me and let the […]

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You say you can change all this
just a little bit, but what I know
is not all that is said
but all that is done
You came in wearing that knight kick
to play off my hate
instead
it took your place
so make me feel
like the girl next to ya
inside the frame
of a box-fucked up world
wait, you say it is me
honey […]

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The linoleum is hard and cold against my cheek. I wake with the taste of blood. I do not know how long I have lain here, but it is dark. The pain through my body cuts like knives when I move. I crawl across the bathroom floor, unable to get up. When I reach […]

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Slowly the rice noodles slide into my throat, slipping past my tongue, nearly unnoticed. The sweet barley miso tingles in my cheeks. I sift the scallions from the tofu and press them to pulp with my tongue.
I am not feeling Japanese, even with the green tea stinging my mouth and Yo-Yo Ma tickling my ears. […]

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Memories absorbing time
i smell the coffee that spilled
on my fingers
An hour ago
i push myself out of the booth
on my way to the phone
To check my box
i listen to the voice
on my answering machine
Reveling in the sound of her
i know the lines of her face
on my own skin
Inherited
i pay for my breakfast
on my credit card
Leaving […]

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Need a ride?
He’s drunk but I am cold, tired and not about to argue with myself. I get in, fasten my seatbelt, and pray to a god I’ve never seen. Fear makes me pious. I try to ignore his erratic driving focusing instead on the snow blowing against the headlights. I am grateful to […]

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