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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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I Woke Up /// re-edited 2/2/2022 12:31PM

not sure how
but I woke up one day
and there you were

you saw a princess
i was unsure of any beauty
that I might contain within

I woke up one day
and I had eyes for color
and the vision to see it
you stood front and center
blinding me

I woke up one day
untied the tangle of my heart
unknotted its vessels
you helped untangle myself
(who does that?)

I woke up one day
tucked into my surrounding
where I found you
I found you grinning
bold as a ghost but
material as my skin
and human to the core

I woke up
on the edge of my bed
you other-sided snoring
marveled how you got there
found you were staring
tousled hair and bold questions
and stars for eyes

now
I wake up
lost in your beauty
thought I lost my stars
but they're earthbound
and breathing with life

might I suggest
if one day
you could wake up
why not do it

lasso the mirage
the bright weaving spark
it is possible
the impossible

holding it before you
as it sifts through the sieve
of your fingers
knowing that some of it always stays

know when you're
lucky
fate is a wily lover
if he knocks at your back door
let him in let him in


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