December 2011
25 posts
Don't ever hesitate.
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Ask me something? Honesty hour, and all that.
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A Homeric Simile for The Moon
It sits in the sky like a burnished pearl button
On the black satin of a widow’s weeds
as she excuses herself from the funeral
where she took condolences grimly and quietly
to cry and make her face red and blotched in the bathroom.
That is what the moon looked like.
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A Character Study, Done In Religion and Sepia
Her face held all the warm severity
Of a picture of a Buddhist nun in a magazine article about Tibet
Hair shorn to the roots, apple-cheeked smile
Esoteric saffron robes over a tiny body
And her voice was like the hum of a radiator
As she sung “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”
Almost so that you didn’t notice it
But deep and true, and atheist though she was
Fully invested in the glory of the coming...
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