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They come- visitors with a bang, knocking on the door of this closed museum, no hours of operation will keep them home. Their sense of rule bewilders me, I would not sully your floor if you invited me inside your door. And no amount of anger would let me disrespect the desk where you workContinue reading “Tourists”

The patient – post operation Sleeps in the ICU Infection seeps all around her Will she make it through? And how much will she suffer Will she need blood to get by Can buffering keep her going Before she finally dies? The patient – she needs each one of us With a smooth and lovingContinue reading “America in Bedlam”

Oh lily, my lily, with bloom of brightest gold here for a while – then gone in the summer storm, but while you were here on the living breath did shine every bee the nectar inclined to better times such a cameo performance! strengthening all who feed history will not forget my golden lily –Continue reading “Captain Courageous”

There is a tomato I have grown, the great white, circumference perhaps four inches, color a yellow so pale you can almost see your face upon its skin. And when you slice and eat of it, then you know what greatness truly is. I am dreaming tomatoes these days, their colors range from the deepestContinue reading “Niobe in the mist”

So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is…fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. – Franklin Delano Roosevelt You know – there is a market for this – the selling of terror to the blanketContinue reading “The fear peddlers”

Activity abounds here. Once I saw a swan chasing a goose, with a trumpeting call she drew so close to him his feathers must have shivered. I stood watching and wondering what did this goose do to so enrage the swan? Goose, swan, human, we all figure into this landscape of unruly plants hiding allContinue reading “Sanctuary”

I too, don’t like it, this entry into the subterfuge – I know there is a laugh, a smile beyond what my eye can see and I long for return to a normalcy of seeing all of it – whether smirk or pout or goad. I too, am weary of this daily vigilance lest theContinue reading “Mask”

This is where knowledge is taboo only in dirt does survival depend upon un-learning all you know whether Confucius or gravity’s pull release them to the atmosphere never more to meander here. This is where language comes to die no more to read Khmer folklore words are a poison to kith and kin every foreignContinue reading “The killing fields”

Their shoulders carry us as we strive for heaven’s door the age of colossus is passing the time of giants gone how the righteous leave us with our grief filled songs. But those songs will carry us like shoulders do at heaven’s door. There is a river running through this broken heart of mine itContinue reading “Make some noise”

Today I’d like to try you on I think your sweet hello would fit just fine the perfect glove for a withered hand that used to shake mine in the days when we connected those days are gone today we must be content with virtual hugs and yet your sweet hello is what I needContinue reading “Today”