Dad

Remnants of an epitaph
on a mossy stone.
Echoes of a belly laugh
from before I was alone.

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Viola

A purple bunch of pansies
in a pot of cobalt blue
on a porch. Their blossoms dancing
to light up the face I knew.

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Roots

An old tree root, an oaken claw
digs deep in the soil. Winter thaw
exposes talons in the earth
seizing water from the deeps — twigs give birth.

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Foresight
A #poetry thread

i.

Golden hazel witch
with her wooly mane
blossoms in late frost,
rekindles yellow flame.

She peers into the future
when her vernal spell is cast,
her wands, the twigs, will twitter
while roses bud at last.

🧵👇🏼

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Prunus

A fog of pink in stretching days
along dark twigs and supple limbs
that seek the warmth of first gilt rays —
a foamy tide when late frost brims.

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Phase
A #poetry thread

i.

A Mary stands in stone,
wrapped close in marble veil,
keeps watch from granite throne
until her bones turn brittle, frail.

She waits.

Her milky marble skin
shows the cracks of time:
some shoots have grown within
her, curling ’round like vines.

She waits.

🧵👇🏼

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Crucible
A #poetry thread

i.

I walk through woods.
They're filled with graves
that lean. My hood's
pulled up. Sky's grey.

Roof on arches,
a lonely bench,
a place that watches,
dark, entrenched.

An archway through
pavilion's dark.
It leads me to
a furtive spark

to light a pyre
for my past self:
no song, no lyre,
no drink to health.

🧵👇🏼

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Fugit

One person’s life,
a puff, a breeze
at altar of time
where stars bend their knees.

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Come November

Blue window in a great orange wall.
Behind orange bricks, cracked temple falls.
Beyond the wall, a red dusk sky
above orange sand. Blue tide rides high.

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Lumen
A #poetry thread

i.

In sable night
that lacks the stars,
a sealed off cave.
A man, five scars.

The tail of night,
a crack is heard.
Black stone is rolled,
a flight of birds.

Beloved with
her oils and herbs.
She sees the stone
and finds no words.

🧵👇🏼

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