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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.)

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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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Mother listens
to the songs of her young
knows their voices before their born

Mother Hen
little chicks
peep coo peep
as she turns the eggs
as their lives she keeps
Mother Hen
such a Mother

Mother sings
to her piglets
songs of reassuring love
did you know a Momma Pig could
sing
see how they move in closer
respond to her sounds
Mother Pig
such a Mother

Mother Cat
feeds her newborn kittens
hides and moves them
from the murderous Tom
nurses and then makes room for one more
not her own
see how they trust her
Mother Cat
such a Mother
generous tireless

is this some
anthropomorphic
observation

no
these
are merely facts

Some
are more devoted
and suited to the task of
 Motherhood
(Chickens
Pigs
and
Cats)
than are
 Human Mothers.




Copyright March 16. 2015 All Rights Are Reserved By this Author
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