Personal Effects

The table sits empty. Chairs all stand in place. Sun streams across the room. Unused…..

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I heard you could calculate the night’s temperature by the chirps of a cricket…

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You’re like a warm rush past my ear, ..just out of sight; faint whispers and…..

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Like a droplet on dry grass; like some lonely remembrance reborn from the past; love…..

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She said there’s no poetry in the dark. It seeps out in pieces and handfuls…..

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When you’re in pieces on the ground it doesn’t matter that the missile was blue,…..

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Let me wake before you. Let me have this single handed moment of solitude. Let…..

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We live on the crust of the earth that is constantly heaving and flowing and…..

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Turn every timepiece back to 5 minutes before. Fix every star in place and close…..

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We really have no idea where life is going; Only where it’s been; only where…..

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Reality hangs on the limbs of bare trees; truth-tellers once covered in leaves, slowly….

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We shared an argument all through the night, on who was the intruder and who…..

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As your breath persuades the air, wind and calm are one.

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The space between frost bitten limbs, and the first glimpse of green.

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a scrap of lace; …unfolded grace; a pocket watch with rusted hinges; that measure love….

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I see you; not aware I’m watching; not taking your gaze away; from the sunbathing….

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We machine our love with wires and grace, precision passion without any face. It sweetens….

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Light strips away the secrets of night like some rival dimensional twin. And even as…..

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These visions lie in wait. Skillfully catching my eye. Calmly walking me back, with the….

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She said she loved flowers, as she plucked them one by one. Her excuse a…..

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You misunderstand my plight, as you shelter me from sin. I’m not one for resisting……

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Down here ….in the row, next to the line. I try to catch your eye……

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I’ve been staring in short, measured glances at the way you lean over your cake;…..

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I lost myself in the accompanying light of your smile. Finally, and on time; like…..

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As my words grow old, they drift into dreams of sonnets

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Colors of the sun; simple shades of autumn, fall on everyone.

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You are a cool desert memory from another time, that calls my name and leaves…..

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