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I Will Not Wait To Die (Poem)
if I wait, then I do not live
I breathe each breath as if it is my last
because it is and my first but most of all
my only breath
I live like this
each moment completely enough
whatever it brings my resting place
and sometimes if I find the need
I’ll offer carefully in an outstretched hand
spaciousness balanced just so
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Winter Mother (Poem)
a frozen luster covers the trees
a glacial gloss tinged with blue
her gaze icier than this landscape
darker than the midnight sky
the wind chills with killing sharpness
linger too long, and you will die
so too said her expression
I left a trail of glittering tears
for no one as I walked away
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Agents of Nothing (Poem)
and you think that you own us
because of some imaginary line
drawn in bloody ink on a bloody map
our bodies used for witness posts
and you want all to be a mirror
that reflects back only your glittering lies
the best the powerful the beautiful
most importantly the always white
you are reeling drunk right now
on delusions of fear masked by arrogant pride
and soon will fall to the ground
cut by the fragments of your self-regard
because we are not you, one of us will come
to bandage your wounds and lift you up
then take you to some hidden place
where you can live your remaining years
alone with only time to fill
that space where the rest of us keep our hearts
