Things with WingsThe following poems, originally written in March and April 2012, were first published on 23 June 2012 in Things with Wings, a free online book in PDF format published by Yay Words, edited by Aubrie Cox.
the neon buddha loses focus on photography
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marked by drips from her ice cream the way home
• tsunami anniversary— a thousand cranes still to be folded
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speed dating— she asks me about her breath
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pelting rain . . . the dormouse finding shelter
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wishing well— my wish to give you a hundred pennies
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birth announcement . . . a plum petal falls into my open palm
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the scent of snow . . . a forever stamp on your breakup letter
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green flash— if I fell in love, would you catch me? +
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narcissus in bloom . . . the gumshoe tells me I’ve been framed
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family trip . . . no wish for reincarnation
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snails have eaten her roses thanks again to my procrastination
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summer’s end . . . unfinished books in a pile for the library
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summer starlight . . . the featured poet alone with her stack of books
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