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I Am A Creature Of The Night. 5/31/2023 WRITTEN DIRECTLY TO THE PAGE FOR FUN

All Beings Considered

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

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

Words Between Edward And Jane



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

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

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

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

This Is What Mermaids Dream Of

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

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

WAITING ON THE WORLD (March/February 2021 poetry)

If Prejudice Were Dumb And Could Not Speak

THE COMPANY THAT WE KEEP WITH THE ONE WITHIN

In The Sanctuary Of My Head

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

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

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

The Dreaming Life ( A Series Of Dream Vignettes)

THE HEART IS AN ORGAN ON FIRE

When Mr. Bemish Lost His Last Good Pair of Glasses

Kathy Brown Kathy Brown

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

THE COOL TILES BENEATH MY FEET REMIND ME

The Way Of The Crow

DO YOU TURN THE LIGHTS SO YOU CAN SLEEP?

Certainly No Bread 3/16/2022

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Kathy Brown Kathy Brown


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one by one
all good soldiers fall

so did one who lived down the hall
Kathy Brown Kathy Brown

all that remains is borrowed evidence
of her name
meager possessions
pickings for the birds
of prey

Kathy Brown Kathy Brown

you walked in
borrowed "gifts" were in your hands
evidence of another's plans

I don't want to remember her by her things
I want to remember her smile
her beaming face
I want to remember how
we came to say hello
those random circumstances so long ago

good soldiers fade
one by one
right before your eyes
the setting of the sun

wasn't it just a month ago
we spoke
we smiled
we laughed
our eyes matching our grins
asking me where and how I'd been

and all that's left of you now
is borrowed evidence

when did you go  
with your rainbow smile
and your tie-dyed eyes
that I couldn't see you off...

sweet sweet
Kathy Brown Kathy Brown...

LEGAL COPYRIGHT@ FOR THIS POEM 1?17/2023 11:31AM PACIFIC STANDARD TIME
TIME AND DATE STAMPED...AND ALSO FOR THIS FRIEND AND AUTHOR MELISSA A. HOWELLS
AND ALSO FOR THIS LEGALLY COPYRIGHTED AND REGISTERED@ SITE TITLE
MELOO STRAIGHT FROM HER TILT-A-WORLD @

WRITTEN AS I FELT THE NEWS OF YOUR DEATH TODAY, KATHY BROWN, KATHY BROWN.





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