December 7: Twilight Encounter
At 4:37 the sun dips down beyond Pikes Peak. For one earsplitting second before that the sun screams down, igniting the sky and blinding every creature.
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The feeling of a good chew toy, the scent of a deer on the wind, the feeling of soil beneath little beans sends every dog howling and jumping.
Okay, we don’t need a magic song for that.
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December 5: The Silent Witness
Screaming through the air of our very short lives
Howling toward our purpose
The irony of our speed written across three bodies
Delay! Deny! Depose!
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I look around
slowly, realizing that I have the power
To direct my abilities toward those I love and
withhold from those who would only use and discard me.
Is it personal growth
to just become older and
become more who you always have been?
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December 4: Time Capsule
we're going through:
Heirlooms
Craft projects
Books, movies, clothes. Mother’s things.
I find
tucked away in a file box
beneath primary school projects
and a doily made by Great Grandma Hamill.
A sealed envelope with my handwriting.
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December 3 Hidden Passage
in Andersonville I scraped all the paint from the coal box door
a clean cut all around
peel off years of landlord’s special
polish pewter-colored metal
Open up!
In the end, it was not a portal to Narnia
Maybe because I was looking for it
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Then suddenly - with the roads covered over
drivers find out, line sides of the road. The ditch
near 711 holds three dull Priuses.
I opened a window and you were in the steam,
18 and smoking Virginia Slims
You casually licked your bottom lip,
changing my life.
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December 1: The Unexpected Gift
I once received an unexpected gift
A surprise of clarity that did not
Degrade into superiority
But when I offered it to my friend
She thought I was joking
Mocking,
“What would I do with that?”
Whatever you want, Kate.
Whatever you want
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