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The Springtime Shadows Play Games Upon The Wall

CHRONICLER OF DREAMS

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

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

HERE WE SIT AT OUR TABLE 2/19/2022



Much Better Than This ( A Conversation With The Universe)

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

THE TIDE CALLED LONELINESS

A Girl Always Leaning Forward Looking for A Breeze

Entanglements

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

Appetites

How I Still Love You

The Smile Which Eludes @

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

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

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

Breathing On My Own

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

I LOVE YOU ALWAYS ANYWAY AND INSTEAD

Talk To Me In The Dark 7/8/2022

ANOTHER REFRIGERATOR POEM 7/2/2022

A NOT-S0-SILLY ANTI-POETRY DITTY

In And In Between The Silence 6/21/2022

Not Alone In the Darkness (As I Once Thought I Was)

Miss Tilt-a-World@

Each One Of Them Is Accounted For (And Matters)

Like Books Full Of Stories Stacked Behind Her

Call It Grace (another Anti-poem)

Lights Out

Saudade: the feeling of wanting to be near someone who is far and distant

That No One But I Will Know (anti-poetry)

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Summer Storms / Electric Monsters



a familiar thumping
keeping pace with the glowing clock
and a gaining rise and fall of the wind

my heart keeps time with the branch
tapping on the window
the East Wind's talking

in the closing distance I can also hear
the ramblings of a summer storm
gathering strength

sleep evades
my thoughts invade
and the darkness's void
is interrupted by flashes of emboldened light

this is the site of
Mary Shelly's dreamscape
and my mind squirms within the framework
of her brilliant imaginings

I'd like to share
these thoughts
these imaginings with you
but your snores also rise
as the storm begins to play its strings
and the first underpinnings of it
unravel across the anvil pierced sky

and for one moment
the night's transformed into
one shocking moment of daylight

I lie sideways on my bed
cover-less
allowing the breeze to race in
and ruffle the air around me

my view a flickering black and stark white
ticking movie screen
as I wait for the electric monster
to appear on the screen outside
breaching the safety of my fragile window...


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