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First Thought Coffee - III
Hot days like this I wish I could remember how to be lazy. I find nothing more appealing than the thought of lying down in the shade of a big green tree to snooze off the rest of the day, only waking to brush away the occasional fly. Modern life has done it's best to rob us of the pleasures of indolence. Even when we have nowhere to be it's our own mind stepping into play warden, tapping the watch
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“Who’s awake at this hour?
Just the mice rolling their life’s luggage
across the attic floor,
running the gauntlet
between the suitcases and heavy coats,
little refugees sailing
their slim luck in the dark.”
― Night Work: Selected Poems 2006-2016
Just the mice rolling their life’s luggage
across the attic floor,
running the gauntlet
between the suitcases and heavy coats,
little refugees sailing
their slim luck in the dark.”
― Night Work: Selected Poems 2006-2016
“Shadows cross the walls of my heart
like the vacant bedrooms of the city at noon.
We’re reminded we’re alive and that within us
is the whole of the human condition—
the dark heavy pieces of an orchestra at rest.”
― Afternoon Music
like the vacant bedrooms of the city at noon.
We’re reminded we’re alive and that within us
is the whole of the human condition—
the dark heavy pieces of an orchestra at rest.”
― Afternoon Music
“The grammar of perfection
Has strangled everything
You cannot teach the heart to spell
While it’s learning how to sing.”
― Afternoon Music
Has strangled everything
You cannot teach the heart to spell
While it’s learning how to sing.”
― Afternoon Music
“Who’s awake at this hour?
Just the mice rolling their life’s luggage
across the attic floor,
running the gauntlet
between the suitcases and heavy coats,
little refugees sailing
their slim luck in the dark.”
― Night Work: Selected Poems 2006-2016
Just the mice rolling their life’s luggage
across the attic floor,
running the gauntlet
between the suitcases and heavy coats,
little refugees sailing
their slim luck in the dark.”
― Night Work: Selected Poems 2006-2016
“Shadows cross the walls of my heart
like the vacant bedrooms of the city at noon.
We’re reminded we’re alive and that within us
is the whole of the human condition—
the dark heavy pieces of an orchestra at rest.”
― Afternoon Music
like the vacant bedrooms of the city at noon.
We’re reminded we’re alive and that within us
is the whole of the human condition—
the dark heavy pieces of an orchestra at rest.”
― Afternoon Music
“The grammar of perfection
Has strangled everything
You cannot teach the heart to spell
While it’s learning how to sing.”
― Afternoon Music
Has strangled everything
You cannot teach the heart to spell
While it’s learning how to sing.”
― Afternoon Music
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