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May 25, 2021
An Arbor Meditation
Stepping outside;
A breath,
A pause.
I rested a hand to a tree.
And leaned into it
With the weight of my weariness.
The coarse sturdiness of its age
Held it
Steadily.
Like an ocean
Holds the sorrows of fishes.
Published in Poetry Leaves May 2017
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May 11, 2021
An Anti-manifesto Project – An Approach to Art – Wordless
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April 20, 2021
Taste
Musty – it’s my memory of the cellar.
When they spent the night,
My grandfather and I would sleep down there.
Me, not really keeping him company,
just being uncomfortably in the same space.
The plastered walls floated a talcy powder that would linger
in my throat
And on my tongue.
Later when he was dying
that discomfort still remained
But subsided as he grew weak
in that big loud frame of his.
Published in Platform Review June 2018
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March 23, 2021
That Time
With 52 there are decades and breath mints and affinities to – the smell of burning earth rolling down your throat – forgetfulness; pills; Bed to car to eyes to ears. resolutions to just reconnect; to dance; with my wife; pictures and writing shit down. Torpor and stupor as god damn legitimate lifestyle options but getting my ass on a trail. To a waterfall. work on time and back. On time. Skipping the soapbox, as if this ain’t exactly just that. Watching parents die and. Vortexes of coming. Cat litter. Keys. IRAs. Going. White privilege and loathing. Stealing road trips and making checklists. Bitter sights and sweet sounds. Sugar pee tests, colonoscopies, and the god damn word cardio. Making marks and just erasing them.
Published on Rue Scribe July 2018
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March 8, 2021
September Morning Meditation with Andy Furst
Another online meditation offered through the Unitarian Universalist Church of Reading. The series began when the COVID-19 Pandemic forced our church to move to an online format.
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March 7, 2021
Number of the Day – Brought to You by David Lynch
Thank you David Lynch for creating art inspiration with number of the day.
The images below are data visualization of David’s number of the day that have been lovingly aggregated by Seth M-T
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February 22, 2021
Of cider and softness
This conspiracy
I am willingly abetting
Wends its way
‘twixt boulders
And sunsets.
It holds you
Responsible.
It holds grudges and faint whispers
In a homemade basket;
Brushes of skin on skin
And wafting lavender smiles.
Neatly wrapped photographs
Folded into my heart
and into the back pockets of autumn’s worn jeans.
They taste of cider and softness;
Sandpaper and seashells;
elastic bound and torn ‘round the edges.
This conspirator
like a deity,
beyond sight or command;
ill or erratic in temperament;
has planted the seed
of longing for you
Published on Rue Scribe July 2018
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February 16, 2021
Morning Meditation with Andy Furst – Jul 28, 2020
Another online meditation offered through the Unitarian Universalist Church of Reading. The series began when the COVID-19 Pandemic forced our church to move to an online format.
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February 9, 2021
Shapes – A Poem Accepted for Publication
My poem “Shapes” was just accepted by The Elevation Review It will appear in the February 2021 issue online. You can read other poems of mine here.
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February 4, 2021
Morning Meditation with Andy Furst – Jun 2, 2020
Another online meditation offered through the Unitarian Universalist Church of Reading. The series began when the COVID-19 Pandemic forced our church to move to an online format.
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