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o In The Sanctuary Of My Head

o The Broken-Winged Birds and People (re-edited 4/5/2323 3:03PM PST) (re-edited 11:14am PST 2/23/2023)

o The Hell Of Winter (re-edited 4:27pm PST 3/9/2023)

o My Grey Haired Love...La La Lullaby , La La Lullaby My Love

o THE HEART IS AN ORGAN ON FIRE

o When Mr. Bemish Lost His Last Good Pair of Glasses

o Kathy Brown Kathy Brown

o Something Not Quite Right About Here (Vortex) re-edited 1/26/2023

o THE COOL TILES BENEATH MY FEET REMIND ME

o The Way Of The Crow

o DO YOU TURN THE LIGHTS SO YOU CAN SLEEP?

o The Springtime Shadows Play Games Upon The Wall

o CHRONICLER OF DREAMS

o YET ANOTHER ANTI-POETRY POEM ( re-edited 11/2/2022)

o You Do As You Please 8/17/2005 found poem, readjusted 6/20/22

o HERE WE SIT AT OUR TABLE 2/19/2022

o Much Better Than This ( A Conversation With The Universe)

o The Straight Story (What Happens When The Writer Inserts You Into Her Story)

o THE TIDE CALLED LONELINESS

o A Girl Always Leaning Forward Looking for A Breeze

o Entanglements

o Have You Ever... (DECEMBER 4/2021)

o Appetites

o How I Still Love You

o The Smile Which Eludes @

o He Says To Me, I Think Too Much (and hence dream too much as well)

o When You Learn Who You Really Are And What Is...

o Anti-Poem Number Three 8/2/2022 Or, A Poem Your Proper Mother Wouldn't Write

o Breathing On My Own

o A Girl Is More Than a Beautiful Box re-edited 10:15pm PST 1/31/22

o I LOVE YOU ALWAYS ANYWAY AND INSTEAD

o Talk To Me In The Dark 7/8/2022

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Silent Endings

the night is mostly quiet
the air moves briefly through
bare branches
pantomiming nonsense
no intelligence speaks from the
sparkling universe above
near dawn
and no answers yet
a comet blazes across
I'm struck down by it
and these silent endings
which hammer away
at my frail heart

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