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"a heaven made of stars, fires blazing bright, lights the way home."
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poem: The Light of All the Stars
"And you pass through pain, abandon principal and protest"
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poem: Love is a Choice
"When I kissed you and lightning charged in like shrapnel and everything was sweetly wild?"
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Poem For a Daughter Standing Beside a Frozen Lake
"Ice plates, hurled to the edge of the shore by the wind and the waves"
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poem: Winter Night
Winter Night This poem originally appeared at Paper Swans Press as part of their poetry advent calendar. Snowy branches silvered by moonlight spread out…
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poem: Perfections
"where the shore rock forms long cold plates and the furrowed clouds hang low and heavy over the water."
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poem: Saturday Afternoon, Landon Bay
"There is no wind just a drowsy stillness…"
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poem: I love it when she wears my old jeans
I love it when she wears my old jeans worn and ripped and hanging loose on her hips and I like to think that at some point during the day when she has…
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