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She tried on pieces of the day, knowing it belonged to others who would catch her and run her out.    Her room was too small, her hurt outgrew it. The town was too big, she feared her own desire. What, in late summer, was just...

It seems to be an inherent part of human existence To think with heads and not hearts Allowing emotions to run high, teetering along a fence With disregard for the (essential) other parts.   What is a feeling if not an...

Cruel corrosive minds Embark on destructive paths, While cold sarcastic hearts Swirl in abrasive wrath, Neither knowing love Nor the symphonies of fact.

I Dreamed: When I am marvelous The Mountain holds me up High in the sky and all the canyons Shallow and narrow, Deep and wide, Harbor my shadow; When I am menial The many foothills of the Mountain Rise up And with thundering...

No matter how hard you may struggle to prevent, There seem to be twists and turns you can never detour That counteract all the tricks you can ever invent, As if some power before-hand had determined that tour.   Born like a...

Once it left me only to pine With a heart defeated mad and sad, So, every time I lift a glass of wine Showing its true color so blood-red, I drink it to what they call Love, or whatever they may, That’s been known to conquer...

Staring out the window of a plane there is a certain uniformity to the world.   Confusing city scapes become ceramic tile countertops and farmland turns into an autumn-colored watercolor canvas.   The elementary school where we...

I, Alvy, do not like to travel. Oh, and I am haunted by loud memories. -journal entry   I’m tired. The moon is full; its light  dapples Lake Champlain. It’s quiet until, but as usual, Pelagea and Tino, upstairs...

There’s no tomorrow and yesterday’s forgotten.   Dad saw himself as disabled and in some ways he was. He was an emotional cripple, that’s for sure. He flew into rages over nothing.   I once got up the courage to point out there...