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Stand

Posted on December 27, 2022December 27, 2022 by towerpoems

I have bent so long in evading the terror of winds that had snapped my fae and brittle branches sapped of their small strength– for what is youth without love and forgiveness for what we’ve not learned but a toil meant to carry these, our graces out from under soil we were taught should fair,…

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Moving away from home

Posted on October 9, 2022October 9, 2022 by towerpoems

We decide on the way to Starbucks that I won’t be finishing the work at my house: I am already exhausted and we only have one week off work to pull this off. We need to get going: we need to leave the city. You have been out of rehab since last Saturday. That day…

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All At Once

Posted on October 6, 2022October 6, 2022 by towerpoems

Did you notice, this whole time you’ve been working to an inevitable closure of wounds you’ve been tending with the intuitive brilliance of a flower unfolding; of a child’s fist in its mouth and a newborn foal’s legs left quaking, wet and well-covered by fluids and spit licked up like a soup and his body…

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Let Epiphany Ring

Posted on October 1, 2022October 1, 2022 by towerpoems

I would rather die than see you take this ring and turn it into what you took from her like a basketball net trying to offer me a drink of water– if you think a drop of this deluge hit you with anything but the intention of a hurricane upon the Florida coast having refused…

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Fingers

Posted on October 1, 2022October 1, 2022 by towerpoems

the spruce tips aren’t tips anymore; are fingers with bones and a tired hand– this pays the price of experience, becoming the one who butters children’s toast in the morning as if it’s something she won’t miss when autumn robs the soft caress of their unending, cloying need from off your face and the sun…

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The Ruin

Posted on October 1, 2022October 1, 2022 by towerpoems

I rise to meet the quiet of the lull you break inside me in the stalwart stillness of my soul: for where winds hath howled between what’s left standing; announced the roof that burned and fell, I have also felt the air lie still and Circumspect as sunset on the prairie I despise as empty,…

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Africa

Posted on October 1, 2022October 1, 2022 by towerpoems

You are a childhood memory and so not a real place; as foreign to me in remembrance as you were that first day– where others have the fragrance of their mother’s breast I instead have red dust and the way an acacia thorn feels rolled between your fingers; the quiet of a savannah’s promise and…

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Falling Leaves

Posted on October 1, 2022October 1, 2022 by towerpoems

Where are my children? They’re falling like leaves and the ones I didn’t have are hid in the magic cabinet I leave bolted to a wall full of all my most enduring and protected spells; tucked neatly into a pair of tiny moccasins stood on the business card of a woman named Piya who dangled…

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The Eagle

Posted on October 1, 2022October 6, 2022 by towerpoems

I haven’t found bones in the forest before (and Hark! take note–) but am left wondering if this is not a place of Death at all, or even substantiation, but something much more mediocre, like: a tired old man feeding an even older and more tiring dog who couldn’t even bother to take home his…

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The Chickadee

Posted on October 1, 2022October 1, 2022 by towerpoems

Mark a dotted line in time with the sound of a bird from your childhood, wakeful in the wood: “Here-here-here I am–!” foot in the sand, hair wet and cold enough to shade us both; sun on my back, including where I couldn’t reach it: I would bother asking someone else to keep from blistering…

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  • Stand

    Stand

    December 27, 2022
  • Moving away from home

    Moving away from home

    October 9, 2022
  • All At Once

    All At Once

    October 6, 2022
  • Let Epiphany Ring

    Let Epiphany Ring

    October 1, 2022
  • Fingers

    Fingers

    October 1, 2022
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