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repeat as needed I am my first friend, I will protect me only I control my thoughts inside me In the morning light, hope begins to show as I try to learn with each tomorrow I begin the day with these words to say: with life...

She talks to her love every day, she said. From her craft room she hears him move about the bedroom. I think there are only four rooms. nightly here, they talk. Married for more than thirty-seven years they sit without any words...

when a cinema arrives incomplete a cacophony of melodrama A farce begins to unfold while you sleep picture a roller coaster twist and sweep on a helicopter’s panorama when a cinema arrives incomplete time and reality will...

I find a smooth white stone on the lake beach close to the water’s edge A thin crack marks its surface like a thread as the lake hums low while a south wind rises It will surely make a fine worry stone No sense to worry or...

Near the granite steps to the beach, and close to the lake, close to a child building a wet castle, a dog fetching a red ball, a woman trying to read a thick book lying on a red blanket, bees are close to a man coffee cup in...

waiting for coffee on the stove to brew The window hums with light too soft to judge while memory stirs the letter he must shape He breathes the bitter steam like borrowed strength turns his thoughts to that one regret long kept...

Be careful of the person      you meet and speak with in a cafe any day while the sky is gray      when the gentle conversation slants to words blind      with heavy sentiment hesitant smile closed eyes      More sugar      more...

My mother would eat cottage cheese and fruit —berries or a cut up apple—for lunch. Or a bran muffin with yogurt. She liked grapefruit, had special spoons for sectioning, saved the peels to dry and candy. Saved all those cottage...