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The Petty Player Who Rarely Sleeps

I'd Like A Taste (The Wolf Said)

The Crow Is A Black Bird

When I Start to Bloom

I'd Like To Be Your Shirt (when you wake up in the morning)



All Beings Considered

Words Between Edward And Jane

Nothing's Sadder Than A Rose

The Great Tsunami Of Our Growing Grief written 3/2.2021--retitled 3/14/2021

After Wide Sargasso Sea ( For Those of You Readers Who Have Empathy For the First Mrs. Rochester.)

WAITING ON THE WORLD (March/February 2021 poetry)

Wild and Unraveling

What Must Be

These Hands Exist July 4 2023 rei-edited 7/12/2023

I Am The Color Of Black

The Tide of Your Lies (2019-2023)

How I Wanted Your Pearls 6/24/2023 WRITTEN DIRECTLY TO THE PAGE

Love Wants What Love Wants re-edited 5/31/023

Winter's Been Too Long.... 4/18/2023 (LONGING)

The Dreaming Life ( A Series Of Dream Vignettes)

Like A Small Street Dog Lured In By The Promise Of Meat

This Is What Mermaids Dream Of

At Night, As I Dream of Vampires Who Have No Bad Intentions

And You Will Be Called Ashes As You Leave ( from a dream)

Certainly No Bread 3/16/2022

Someone Send Out A Search Party

THE FAN , AT NIGHT, GIVES GOOD ADVICE completely re-edited, an entirely different poem

What Is The Price For Your Touch? re-editied 5/31/2023

Where Is My Bed With The Pleasing Tree -Lined View(NOW REEDITED)

Oh What Fine Physics (Before Me ,Lies) re-edtited @4/17/2023

If Prejudice Were Dumb And Could Not Speak

THE COMPANY THAT WE KEEP WITH THE ONE WITHIN

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indirect

take it to the man
don't bring it to me
if you have the courage of your convictions
then pin the notice to the tree
don't put it on me
don't triangulate
don't disassemble the problem at my feet
i will not be the messenger
i will not be the harbinger the monger of rumor and hate
i will not be the bearer of the business
i will not participate
this is my boundary and you've crossed over it
no is a one word sentence
do we need a translator to infiltrate the message
so it sticks
i will not involve myself even indirectly
these aren't my shenanigans
if you want to resolve an issue
if you want to get results
you talk directly to the person
not through me
anything less would be an insult
both you and the other person
deserve a face to face
i am not taking your positions
you must grab the steering wheel yourselves
the world drives better with direct applications
so go on and have at it
discuss and remove the gloves
with a little application of effort
and a little dose of love
you will have a compromise
guaranteed
but
with indirectness
you will both lose
the argument will live on in perpetuity
the argument will succeed



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