First Independent Journal Article

I hadn't realized it was out yet!

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Resonance

The in-flight magazine 

reminded me of 

my own little comic

who likes the story of 

Carol Burnett tugging 

on her ear

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Contentment

The nicest thing this last month

has been NuNu reading to *me*

She finds books her classroom discards

Then follows me around the house,

Reading, emoting, so intently.

I think I'll remember  

The Shoeshine Girl always

The Chalkbox Kid forever. 

(I want to.)

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The Talented Triplets

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Nodes

There're ways to do this
where dreams are choral
and my eyes are wings
florescent with words

And if If I gave you three dollars
and 75 cents, how far away
is the train at 50 m.p.h.
carrying all our songs of want?

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Bottu Puppies!

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The End

They'll be home from YS soon
And then night comes
or falls--depends
on whom you ask


Time to wrap babies and burritos
while birds dip their wings
in sunsets
and vanish

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In Transit

the body remembers what it used to do
escapes as blithe as a toddler

no experience, no accomplices, no plan
only the trail to the door

like the first moment in the water when
my body seems soluble

held so sure and certain
then gone in a glint of sun


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