Category: Poems
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Counting Small-Boned Bodies: A Poetic Protest
An after poem, reflection, and collages based on Robert Bly’s poem Counting Small Boned Bodies.
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organ healing
Steeple steel sounds Resonating notes Resonating bones Holding still Controlled Swaying pews Speaking pipes 278 stops Great organ Great Goddess Kali Keys and tones Serenade and bring me home 3/16/2025 ⋆˚࿔ latest posts 𝜗𝜚˚⋆જ⁀➴
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deep blue
There is a deep A deep blue in my soul It’s almost black And sticky like a resin It’s in the cavity behind my ribcage And in the organs of my belly This sap This resin Cries often Tears of tar From years of war Years of fracking this polluted landscape Within in me is…
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woman//wolf
Charging across fields so familiar Perspiration collecting and dawning a pearled necklace across my chest The heaving of my lungs pumps life into me like a tire that’s been deflated for decades —Stiff and sun tanned But happy to be moved again. To go here and there Leaving nothing but my scent To run towards…
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penumbra
Gentle sweet gentle Water Waves of gravity Carry me My blood So borrowed So stained Sustained Ancestrally muddled Sunshine stolen Burned to the bone Imagined in the soil In the spirit In the songs So long ago Not long ago I watched. 3/3/25
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