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FLYING HOME BY MARIANNE LYON

I hover above garage flying like a slow owl. See my child-home like I did in a dream many years ago. Silence stays awake in crisp windless moonlight. I glide over pungent backyard. Nasturtiums and lilacs whiff in midnight air....

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TWILIGHT ROSE BY MARIANNE LYON

Fear has not yet occurred to them, nor ambition. Reason they have not yet thought of Neither do they ask how long they must be roses, and then what. Or any other foolish question. Mary Oliver Evening bids me to my rose garden....

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A COLIN KAEPERNICK NIKE AD

“Just do it”, holds no worth, unless You’re crazy enough, to let self-belief, Turn the corner, into concrete deed. How like in New York, When you turn 90 degrees, it can be Wall Street, Or perhaps Broadway. How you need not...

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NEW YORK BY DILANTHA GUNAWARDANA

The green patina of copper oxides, The jade colored statue of the maiden of liberty, That reminds every man, woman and child, That over here, the grass is greener. How Every minute rushes past faster than A subway train, and the...

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SUMMER MOMENT BY MARIANNE LYON

Walking from front door I go out to visit The maple touch her braille skin comb her abundant foliage expecting my reach and her roots with their clenched knuckles and the soft grass like a slippery carpet and the breezeless...

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ANCIENT OAK BY MARIANNE LYON

I pause beside ancient oak stump the one that bids me contemplate life but my puppy wags, seeking my eyes wonders why we have stopped Inside a moment of stillness I query if a part of me way down in my roots is really untethered...

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MERCY BY MARIANNE LYON

He was young once— brown eyed, dewy cheeks Now aged, he sits at my table sometimes sunshine knells through window other days, rain stings against glass. I am repulsed by thorny complaints gruff laugh, swollen bitterness I do not...

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THE DAY AFTER VETERANS DAY BY KARINA LUTZ

An old, straight-backed man, chest holding tight as armor since Korea, looks at me, a woman walking alone in the wide open park designed by Olmstead according to Wilson’s biophilia so I can see predators yet never be far from a...

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DEATH TO THE ESCAPE FANTASY BY KARINA LUTZ

I. Whiteness is marked, too The colorful one-dollar-a-day expat enclaves, their string hammocks and thinning longhairs, their bare-foot cantinas and surf-soundtracked all-night cheap-dope conversations no longer appeal: I’m an...

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