She handed me a bowl of soup.
I unfurled my knotted fists
And held the warmth in my aching hands.
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In the touching
Of nothing there is a promise
Of relief. -
Persistence and Resistance
The owl calling carried me backwards
Until the wind whipped the midnight rain
At my upstairs windows and
Abruptly I woke.There was no owl.
And I did not even wonder about him
Or his mate who answered from
The faint beyond.
I only listened to the foreign rain
Knock at the desert.
Persistent for entry despite
The unexpected arrival and
Resistance. -
A Woman Unlike Me
She never really enjoyed the pleasure
Of others being in love with her
Living on the top of the old hill as she did.
She never really held tight the need
To be best at what she wants,
To look in a different mirror,
Or soften the edges of her ideas, thoughts, voice.
It never occurred to her to make herself different.
Frosted and primed for a gala event.How interesting she is in her not caring
To care about the caring
That knocks on her door and is delivered
Like a warm butter cake, like a
Sack of apples just pulled from the tree,
Like a deep cut to the arm
That needs tending.
Never does it occur to her.
As she wraps a scarf around her neck tightly
And heads out the back door.
Striding fast and determined
To the whim of her wants. -
What Must We Do
What must we do to scrub clean
The residue of this misunderstanding.
The uneven cadence of our words.
The fated discussion of disillusion.
The abrupt shearing of our parting.This wasteland lives on the other side of faith.
Climb the fence and come lay with me in the grass.
Watching the sky for the clouds that pass.
And the daytime stars that beam even brighter
In their effort to be seen—just like me
And just like you.
Here. Hold my trust and I will hold yours
And our eyes will become the green of the ocean
While our bodies become liquid and painless.
Come, lay in the grass with me and sigh
With the knowing of your completeness
In the vast nothing nothing nothing
That holds us all in a warm embrace of care.
My Name Is Not Mavis 