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Ground Zero
What conversation would you like rejoined,pretending that no years have intervenedand that the cares we once thought so immensestill weigh in at their same old magnitude,when those long idle hours spent in talkwith no intent except to measure timewith Prufrock’s … Continue reading
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Tagged conversations, daily poems, friends, personal history, regret
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Face to Face
We reconnect through wireless means – no strings attached, just memories like wisps of smoke we can’t inhale without a self-accusing stare. Like ghosts, we shuffle wall to wall and watch as life unfolds somewhere, where we could be, on … Continue reading
Redefining My Peer Group
When you think about it, what does a jury of one’s peers really mean? Legally, I suppose it means that because all individuals are theoretically equal under the law, one’s peers in a litigious sense means other equally theoretical equals. … Continue reading
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On Adding New Friends
Sometimes I feel there’s not enough ink, and spare electrons can’t be found to pull out from the ether what I think, so I pull in all the excess wood around and burn away the wheatless chaff in giant billowed … Continue reading
A Call Out of the Blue
Out of the clear blue, a telephone call sent my mind wandering off in free fall; an old friend, from high school, a long time gone, whose voice I had oft reflected upon got my number, it seems; called to … Continue reading