Sitting

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Sitting
Goddess
do I wish I could draw
the mountain
that is burning 
into my mind
a beautiful bulwark
over time
shaped shaved crushed
Yet
I am still 
Sitting

The writing prompt was a photograph by Ansel Adams from the book “The Georgia O’Keefe Museum.” Georgia O’Keefe sketching …

Spring cleaning

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Spring cleaning today

Clean as spring
Spring as clean
Lean his song
Ring has rung

Rust my ring
Mean thy lean
Ring in on
Spring has sprung

Clean!

Sensitivity to initial conditions. It was that kind of day. I was in that kind of thought. And the writing prompt was spring cleaning. This is how I played with it. The Troubled trickster, I wrote in the same workshop.

Only words

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Only words

may bridge the stream and swamp —

Forsaken, forbearing, and fortuitous —
Eventually on transit seven or six
Near the land strewn with rocks.
Yearning for silver not sand, I’m
Alluding to all four letters

spelling them with my digits:
twelve fifteen twenty-two five
please
make it count

This poem, I wrote a few years ago and have polished it a little recently, in my writing group.

If you have the time and energy to read more of these texts you find them in blog order on this website. Let me know what you associate with them, what you like, what you dislike, …