the healer’s hands

Like a maestro about to caress poetry out of his guitar
she brings her hands down to the angst quivering
like a sack of angry snakes on the soft table before her.
Prodigal, this body that was conceived in perfection
has succumbed to the injuries of flesh and has come
to be opened and rescued and forgiven. Continue reading

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across the table

She was telling me how she opened the cupboard
under the sink and a bottle of bleach fell out and
smashed on the stone floor: broken glass all over.
And bleach. Now she’s afraid she’ll drop something else.
Afraid the kids might fall Continue reading

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yellow blue

He raises his hand palm down and applies it like a cap visor
to his forehead, shading his eyes from the yellow sun-glow.
“Sky blue and cloud gray are easier to look at,” he says.
Next morning, the dreams we recount are difficult, scary.
“The happy dreams, happy stories are uninteresting,” he says.
He says we are a species obsessed with the dark side:
the blues in the night, vampires, Continue reading

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