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Poetry

Week 1/Day 2. Self-portrait, 2008 (a poem)

2020/10/06 — Leave a comment

I’m participating in an online poetry retreat for the rest of the month. This is my second poem.

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Week 1/Day 1. So it’s like that… (a poem)

2020/10/05 — Leave a comment

I’m participating in an online poetry retreat for the rest of the month. This is my first poem.

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Separated by a common language (a poem)

2020/10/04 — Leave a comment

Sometimes the right word is hard to find.

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The President of the United States of America visits Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (a poem)

2020/10/02 — Leave a comment

I know what my mom would say. I’ll just say this.

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The trouble with my imagination (a poem)

2020/09/27 — Leave a comment

Up a little late tonight.

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As the shadow phase begins (a poem)

2020/09/23 — Leave a comment

There’s a bright, golden moon tonight.

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Behnd the mask when masks are up front (a poem)

2020/09/21 — Leave a comment

A self-portrait of sorts.

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The spiralling of winter ghosts (a poem)

2020/09/17 — Leave a comment

Written during a poetry reading while listening to David Sylvian & Holger Czukay.

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Acknowledgement (a poem)

2020/09/17 — 2 Comments

It is popular these days to begin certain gatherings by ‘acknowledging the land’. But it seems to me that the people offering these ‘acknowledgements’, however well-intentioned, are leaving a few things out.

For my part, I acknowledge that this is likely not a popular opinion.

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233 (a poem)

2020/09/12 — Leave a comment

Where there’s fire and a whole lot of wind, there’s smoke—and a lot of it.

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