It’s Got Legs

I discovered a spider
swimming in my water

filtering pitcher. Not

floating. Swimming. 

What wisdom should

I weave from its visit?

Cinse Bonino

2026

#life #wisdom #spiders #awareness #signs

They are despicable.

current events half a world currently

#life #currentevents

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Leaving a Mark I turn 70 in two weeks.

#aging #life #poetry

living in this now (candy from Chatham Candy Manor)

living in this now

the air carries missiles
aimed at nuclear sites
as a plane carries Easter
candy toward my son

Cinse Bonino
2026

#war #life #ChathamCandyManor

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seriously silly the opposite of terror

seriously silly

the opposite of terror
is peace or safety but
the antidote is delight

Cinse Bonino
2026

#delight #joy #fightfascism

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Something from Nothing May Actually be Something Else I’ve always prided myself on being able to make a magnificent meal for friends even if there is next to nothing, or what many would consider to be nothing, in my fridge and cupboards.

#awareness #grateful #cooking #reuse #creativity

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VT Peeps: This looks SO good!
Middlebury College Theatre Department Presents: The Maids
by Jean Genet translated by Martin Crimp April 9 - 11, 2026 (Free parking is available.)
Tickets: Call (802) 443-6433 or go to www.middlebury.edu/college/box-...

Sage and Time I have a tiny vacuum that I use once in a while on the carpet in my small studio apartment.

#vaccum #toaster #kitchen #wisdom #life #procrastination #awareness #selfawareness

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marching forward February is done

#life #death #joy #family #friends #war #hope #grief #pillows

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I think the pile of evil
has reached critical mass.
Which way will we go?

late stage musings sometimes I find myself wishing

#apocalypse #musing #newworld #life #change #evolution #poetry

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The Inner Eye I learned a new word yesterday.

#selflove #awareness #selfacceptance #life #narcissism #philautia #aging #joy

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family recipes my mother grew up

family recipes

my mother grew up
on an emotional diet
of crumbs from the table
and bone slivers on the floor
the crumbs were never enough
the bones cut her throat even
as they strengthened her spine

Cinse Bonino
2026

#familyrecipes #generationaltrauma #awareness

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my inheritance

my mother had a hunger
it was huge and demanded
to be fed to prove she mattered
to stop anyone from discounting her
I feel it sometimes flowing in my blood
when I stare at a piece of chocolate cake

Cinse Bonino
2026

#inheritance #hunger #selfworth #selfawareness #poetry #cake

revelations I forget as I watch

revelations

I forget as I watch
the sky shifting to
remember the Earth
continues to turn
its face to a different
place is about more
than what is there
it matters where we
have placed ourselves

Cinse Bonino
2026

#place #choices #poetry #selfawareness

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silly comparison #1

sweaters are like tofu
you can’t twist them
when they’re wet
only squeeze them

Cinse Bonino
2026

silly comparison #2

dust bunnies hide
out of reach like
cats under the bed
refusing capture

Cinse Bonino
2026

#comparisons #poetry

a new decoration for my apartment door for fun, entertainment, insanity prevention, and to help friends find my place more easily when they come to visit... #home

Moving On death gifts

#death #grief #growth #dementia #aging #learning #selfawareness #roots #wisdom

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fall in love with
your own life

thank the sun
for reaching
through your
window pane

notice how
moss looks
like its own
huge forest

congratulate
lint for breaking
free from its
incarceration

thank your
coffee for
dancing on
your tongue

Cinse Bonino
2026

#love #gratitude #life #notice #poetry

mistaken identity

the oldest wild bird
a Laysan albatross
stared flying over
oceans three years
before I was born
she and I have seen
much of this world
looks at her with
reverence the way
I look at my own
gifted journey to
them I am just
an old woman

Cinse Bonino
2026

#aging #identity

2026 butterflies fill my ribcage

#2026 #survive #resist #persevere #hope

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silly comparison #1

sweaters are like tofu
you can’t twist them
when they’re wet
only squeeze them

Cinse Bonino

2026

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noted

two birds
in my lungs
both singing
neither wrong
but the song
matters

Cinse Bonino
2026

#listening

Well-dressed
ladies who lunch
believe nothing
can touch them
because it rarely does.
Who’s going to
tell them
head lice like
clean hair too?

We talk about
white privilege as if
it is a byproduct
of racism.
Open your eyes.
It is the intended outcome
of racism.

reflections

you’re so disciplined
she said as she rung
up my tiny chocolate
covered caramel heart
I recently purchased
a full length mirror
I replied smiling

Cinse Bonino
2026

#reflections #bodyimage #aging #humor #health

How about you?
#language

a little bird told me

a small bird drinking
from the stainless steel
bowl the cafe sets out
for patrons’ dogs tweets
a white paper about shared
non-class based resources

Cinse Bonino
2022

#justice #equalrightsforall #poetry #peace