POETRY
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ON WAKING
Published "SHEETS: FOR MEN ONLY"
Edited by LOIS CLAIRE KINCANNON
2004
Dancing Ink Press
Pernicious morning
Reveals no clue of forecast
Just foreboding gray
Or golden tongues
Of sunlight fair yet fickle
How dare I face you
Matching witlessness
Against craft, guile, deception?
Yet I will, I must
It simply is thus
No point exists in questions
And so you lure me
Out into the world
Using the siren voices
Of my own nature
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CRAZY BRAIN
Published "SHEETS: FOR MEN ONLY"
Edited by LOIS CLAIRE KINCANNON
2004
Dancing Ink Press
The thoughts bounce
Around my head
Like so many drunken fish
Attacking their reflections
In a bowl.
Thud, thud, thud
They smack against the wall
Until they float,
Exhausted,
Belly-up
To the surface.
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SUNFLOWERS
Tall
Bright yellow
Circles pointing skyward
The laughing
Freckled girl
Runs
Carefree
Among the slender,
Fragile stalks
Published "SHEETS: FOR MEN ONLY"
Edited by LOIS CLAIRE KINCANNON
2004
Dancing Ink Press