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Body Memory

January 13, 2021 FlashLeave a comment

This getting older

It feels like confidence and

Competence and clarity

And yet it looks like

Mechanical wear and tear

– betrayal by the body.

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Democracy

January 8, 2021 FlashLeave a comment

Does (or can) it exist…

… if it waves lily white flags

And supremicists

raging in defeat…(deceit?)…

lose their delusional minds?

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Youth is over before you know it.

January 6, 2021 FlashLeave a comment

It’s been a long time

Since fluoro lights and retail

Tunes marked time between

Makeup and music and smoke

From cigarettes in nightclubs

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December 28, 2020 FlashLeave a comment

I feel like a dick

Most of the time and mainly

When I try not to be

You know, a dick, cos how fucked

Are dickheads and who’d be one

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Body Pains

December 26, 2020 FlashLeave a comment

My knee aches today

But not my heart, that one is

Pumping baby, like

I am ready to face this day just right after this coffee…

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And me

December 23, 2020 Flash2 Comments

Revolutionary?

To say I love me and you

It is not a war

And there is no either or

Just an I love you …and me

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Post Scripts

December 22, 2020December 23, 2020 FlashLeave a comment

It has come to this:

I write Post It notes to me

And they say things like

‘You are enough’ and stuff like

‘You’ve got this, you have got this’.

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Aching

December 18, 2020 FlashLeave a comment

A dying cat sprints

Over the last finish line

Innately hopeful

Heart breakingly valliant

And blind sided in defeat.

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November 30, 2020 FlashLeave a comment

I inherited

My father in law’s walking

Stick. It has sticky

Tape and a sticker with his name

I think I will paint it pink.

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November 27, 2020November 27, 2020 FlashLeave a comment

When it’s time bury me here

Under a Morten Bay Fig that’s

Built like a Mack Truck

With a solid beating heart

And I’ll hug it’s grounded soul

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goodbye Tanka

November 22, 2020November 22, 2020 FlashLeave a comment

Three months ago you

Sent us home made Rocky road

We spoke on Facteime

And optimistically

Made plans to see you again.

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Kid in a sprint

November 3, 2020 Flash2 Comments

I changed my profile pic

Hoping you would notice

me and you didn’t but –

I know they did, 27 likes

and I am smiling bright

I’m a kid chasing stars

And it’s uphill all the way

And crowds are cheering.

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a Tanka to a Mentor

November 1, 2020November 1, 2020 FlashLeave a comment

I have grown to know

More about me, less about

Disingenuous

Musings I had settled for

As truth before I met you.

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The Massage

October 31, 2020October 31, 2020 FlashLeave a comment

Oh Danny Boy by panflute

Pipes Bali into Westpoint

While I toy with radical

Acceptance like a

Speech that someone else has penned

For me to speak it’s tennet.

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A Tanka for Vetti

October 19, 2020October 19, 2020 FlashLeave a comment

Defy gravity

Crush crimson berries on ice

Embrace falling rain

And raise an alchemists glass

Salutation joie de vie.

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A time…

October 18, 2020 FlashLeave a comment

Once upon a time

When being political

Was having an opinion

On the merits of this or

That and ideology

Framed understanding

That debate could change the world

One dissected issue

At a time…

In a democracy valued

And upheld:

Those were the days.

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A tanka to you

October 17, 2020October 17, 2020 FlashLeave a comment

I don’t know if you

….Love like I do and if you…

Give love, being known – and do…

You take up much space in time?

Or could you hold space in mine?

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A Tanka to 2020

October 15, 2020 FlashLeave a comment

Fighting the virus

We’re all in this together

Unprecented

Wear a mask and wash your hands

Today we record no deaths

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A Solitary Walk

October 14, 2020 FlashLeave a comment

I’ve lost my reflection And finding it is bucket listed above the Greek Islands But below retirement. I don’t yet know if it is In your mirrored glasses Or In a puddle on potted asphalt But I sense its existence In my warm breath In this cold air And maybe there’s a mirror In a […]

A Solitary Walk

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A tanka to me

October 7, 2020October 10, 2020 Flash1 Comment

Crushed by massive waves

That break as I stand naked

And lit up with sun

Warming up and slow baking

My cheeks and arms and shoulders

My body soft, heart bolder.

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