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Poetry Month – April 21, 2024 – On the Altar

THE ARCHEOLOGY OF A CHILDTwo crib beds for mom and baby
Or maybe for child and baby doll
Which is the same thing.
One bottle for baby because
If they don’t have one, they cry.
A cellphone for mom… Read the rest!

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Poetry Month – April 20 – On the Altar

LITTLE BEASTSLook
Look
Look
What I made
A bear
A crocodile
A dog
A platypus
A it-doesn’t-matter
Her small fingers
Shaped and
Pinched and
Molded and
Added
Legs and tails and body and
Wait
Wait
Wait
I have to… Read the rest!

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Poetry Month – April 19, 2024 – On the Alter

       THAI CATDemonic eyes
Spots everywhere
Curled in repose
Under the corner of a street vendor’s blanket
Almost hidden by the fringe
Not exactly the finest symbol of luck and prosperity
Except a… Read the rest!

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Poetry Month – April 18, 2024

ANGELSThe world is divided
Those who believe
Those who don’t.
But, you say, it’s angels
How could you not believe in them?
That sweet face
Those rosy cheeks
That curly, almost unruly hair.
She/He/They look fun
She/He/They look like… Read the rest!

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Poetry Month – April 17, 2024 – On the Altar

HALLIEEvery time she came for a play date
she wanted to do the exact same thing
as the last time.
Paint rocks.
Over and over.
I didn’t understand.
Don’t you want to…?
I’d ask.
She’d look at me with… Read the rest!

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POETRY MONTH – April 16, 2024 – On The Altar

       NOT LOSTSmall enough to fit in a purse
Bookish enough to look like I’m reading
I climb the steps out of the Metro
Mumbling my memorized route
A droit,
Et puis gauche… Read the rest!

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Poetry Month – April 15, 2024 – On The Altar

       THE COUPON BOOKThey emerge fully formed
Bone, skin, heart, lungs
But really, they are sponges
Multicellular channels floating inside
Then pushed outside
To learn new currents
Eruptions of laughter
Angry growls
Noise.… Read the rest!

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Poetry Month – April 14 – On The Altar

FOR THE HEALINGThat’s what she wrote on the back of the little prayer house.
Neither of us believed in a god but we knew something
Some BIG thing
knit us together.
When you‘ve left parents’ home,
When you’re renting… Read the rest!

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Poetry Month – April 13, 2024 – On the Altar

NOT A RIBWhat do you do with
a strangely shaped rock? Create
A  Gorgeous WomanA dear friend and I used to have a running contest. I picked up heart-shaped rocks. She picked up womanly anatomical shapes. I won… Read the rest!

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Poetry Month – April 12, 2024 – On The Altar

OUR MOTHER OF PERPETUAL HELPWhat she didn’t know when
she gave me the portable altar filled with
Seven little babies
Thirteen paper cherub cut-outs
Two roses (one dried, one silk)
Four floral twist-ties
Two lightweight red and white wires… Read the rest!

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