loved to read, yet I always have been ripped from the pages-
choosing oblivious eyes without a
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My father hands me a small box when I arrive for Thanksgiving break. It is from my grandmothe ... [+]
Pain never lasts,
Wounds cannot stay--
Only as fading white lines of memory--
All is
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Just a winter working night,
Away from the city, away from the light
For sixty years, working
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I walked with you
down darkening stair
and spoke of the Great Edge,
Where heroes lay down
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Tarry here a tad
under a sky lavender and blue.
Sit with me, says the day.
I aim not to know
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Sometimes people forget
We are on the same side,
We fight each other
Instead of the
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There she sat in a column of sun
legs to one side, arm bracing
her upright, and she poured
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The one who calls, “Come unto Me,”
Who knows us better than do we,
Known and numbered, we
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Eat like a pig-
Chew like a cow-
Run like a cheetah-
Roar like a lion-
Squeak like a
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A man came boasting into town
He swaggered as he walked
One woman’s friends–they were
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Black vested wall confining, choking, overreaching
On knees resist pale bank unmoved
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