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the sunlight dreams of skin
but his is made of paper—
folded, crumpled, singed
touch becomes smoke
becomes flame
becomes ash
words turn into birds
turn into lullabies hummed backward
they fly and hide
behind locked doors

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sodden earth
relentless wind
oak stood forty years
breaking point
splinter shards
ripping then
untethered
roots grasping
for the soul of the soil
leaves grieving the light
that no longer attaches

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When I could not find her
I walked to the garden
and there
among the zinnias
as if she were one of them
hands plunged into the black soil
she turned her face towards me
and bloomed

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i’m saying life’s too short to be in a cover band

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spent the morning reading poems to the smallest ticks i’ve ever seen. this poem is called “hamburger.” it was pub’d in Home Planet News a couple weeks ago.

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Literary journal Riverwind 1997 with cover photo of bride holding a little girl; all in sepia tone.

The first page of the poem “Carrion” by Magpie Miller writing as Kim Miller

The second page of the poem “Carrion” by Magpie Miller writing as Kim Miller.

Today’s packing pic: dear flotsam🌊📚!
“Carrion,” Riverwind, pp. 24-25, 1997. Today I’d probably end the poem on “early March wind.” Wind down that need to insert myself, get some final final-word.
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