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Childhood Prayer

Childhood Prayer

It was a bold experiment in my mind, perhaps an early inquiry into the workings of reality. Prayer mingled God with Santa Claus: if I prayed hard enough, I would get a beautiful dollhouse in my room. I cleared a space for it between my bed and the door. I was six or...
Strafe My Soul

Strafe My Soul

To daddy-Monster: You can resentfully blame mebecause my existence – my birth –reminds you of your new dutyresulting from my illegitimate conception. Enraged, you can throw medown a flight of stairsbefore I can walk. You can pound your fists into meas I lie...
Community Of Spirit

Community Of Spirit

In the silent sanctuary of a misty morninga lone juniper stands beyond our windowon the shoreline of Four Mile Pond Spring wraps her fog around burgeoning new needlesand the ancient silent stones who accompany herA robin bounds from a branch unto the silky, moist...
Pressure

Pressure

The dream is becoming a realityRight before my very eyesWhat goes up can come downGravity is a strong forceAt times, weighing me downNever staying downRising up to greater heightsDisbelief and humblenessSpiritually wokeNew visions and claritySo different from what...
Phantom Friends Long Lost

Phantom Friends Long Lost

My broken-hearted savior..I'm the bruised Reed groveling at your holy feet, on the tares I chose to feed..ignoring golden wheat. When you see the man grow and get a little fame, give him a number, forget his name.. fail to ever again treat him the same. Look hard and...
One-Minute Vacations

One-Minute Vacations

There is a sweet, depthless musical quality to having eye contact with a pet dog, or with any animal that is peaceful and trusting: children and intimate partners, good friends, loving family. I let the life in me flow across, mix and blend in a partially visible...
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