moving on…part I

And when am I ready? four months from now.
What if I speed myself faster somehow?
If you go twice as fast, eight months I’m sure.
Best you escape speed’s most dangerous lure.
How is it then that when I am going faster
I’m slower, living more heart’s disaster?
That when you have one eye fixed on the goal
Only one’s on [...]

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Peppermint Swirl

Perhaps my favorite stanza to write was: And in between the red and white, / my blood and guts, my skin, / the sun as it repels the night: / I call and hear from Him.
The border between my white skin and the red flesh below is the border of so many things:
The outward and [...]

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The countless benefits of heart surgery

Soul’s Surgery
Oh God’s love-practiced knife, you know me best
So shapely, His tool, that knew my true mettle
Your decisive metal that tore my flesh
And taught frenzied soul just how to settle
Oh God’s soft bread that is tribulation
I spat at the bitter taste with a start
At first I couldn’t taste salvation
My tongue itself bitter, and my heart
Confusion-encompassed, [...]

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Winter Sonnets

The Heartscape
In sorrow that it’s sewn, the heart despairs
And after, in lying fallow, the same
The pain of the world enters my prayers
Please, forgiveness. I am surely to blame.
The grubs ate the shoots at my poor tending
I busied with my chores our best moments
My hurt falls with the flurries unending
When warmth is gone suddenly, and torments
The [...]

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