The massive gray whale lingered In a moment of suspended animation as She is ascending from the ocean floor up To exchange a drag of air The vast navy blue depths hold her Weightlessly Effortlessly
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Banchan
In Korea I could disappear. Not like, “40 year old woman goes missing on vacation and is never seen again,” disappear. But rather, disappear so seamlessly into the masses that I’d never even feel lost. I could be among a dozen people and not even be noticed. Physically fitting in might have been the missing…
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Orion Is A Mother
Orion will teach me the answers to questions I ask through chattering teeth. Diffused along the smoky veil of my condensed breath, diluted among the ragged inhale of subsiding sobs. Barefoot under the thin shadow of a moonlit dogwood tree I endure the sharp winter air. My small body squatted, legs tucked inside my pound…
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a beachcombing stranger
effervescent collapsing wave remnants but roar and smash. crash and echo. trapped shells cascading in suction, receding. reverse
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Leaving
It was her heart that was the first to leave. She was only six yet her wise heart knew that this was not love, even while the mind did whatever it could to soothe and to make believe that it was.
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