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On writing

Posted on January 24, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

click click…When you know yourself – I mean truly know the skin and sinew, the creases in the folded chits of memories, the dogeared emotions…when you know what ails you and you stop selling it as fodder for attention… then, … Continue reading →

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Love and Anecdote: Michael

Posted on January 20, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

My friend Michael and I caught up today.  and Michael loves Howard.  Oh, and Michael is a girl; not that it would matter anyway.  This discussion prompted this, along with my own situations…I remember seeing a glistening peak in the … Continue reading →

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Breakfast with a Writer

Posted on January 18, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

Softly I’ll landwherever you land,slide over the lee of your wakeI’ll drift on your breathand fly on stirred windsto wherever your wings will take I’ll break my fastwith steel cut oatsand sip the steam of splendid teaand dip my breadin … Continue reading →

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10 Pound Poem on an Ounce of Paper

Posted on January 8, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

Harvesting thoughts With a scythe and sickle, Burying the furrows Like a paradox popsicle. The literary farmer Sows fertile periphrasis Lamenting fraught seedlings Twisting taffy off the pages. While carmine dust-devils Stir desert air, Cochineal insects Sip prickly pear. Gather … Continue reading →

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Gravity and Cats

Posted on January 8, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

Gravity is not dangerous, it’s just another variable in their calculation….because in a cats mind everything, EVERYTHING, is accessible. And until they get it, their world nearby is abundant with equally happy and achievable alternatives. This is probably all that … Continue reading →

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Dream Dust

Posted on January 8, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

Beneath these clothes, and flesh and sinew… is a universe trying to get out.  And if I languish to a halt, and weather to dust, I’m only expanding; to be found again, in the dream dust of another.Image from: http://tinypoems.blogspot.com/ tis … Continue reading →

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Now (again)

Posted on January 8, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

I’m living in the now for all ages to come! tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle

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Grey Goodbyes

Posted on January 7, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

Morning stirs – a dull grey mist, clouding memories of your tender kiss And where the angels once gamboled upon my heart Now there’s just lonely wreckage as the storm departs I remember when – we laughed in sighs And … Continue reading →

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Bathing Angels

Posted on January 6, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

Were the angels here to gambol upon your heart And laugh like sighs beneath seaside skies Where stars blink on, as I close my eyes And waves curl over, and a heron flies Where a crimson coast goes dark. Were … Continue reading →

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Quips for the Quipish

Posted on January 6, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

1.  It seems I am only misunderstood for trying to have people understand me for something I am not.  Why is something so easy to understand, then so difficult. 2.  You’ll never please everyone being yourself, least of all yourself … Continue reading →

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