Jesus
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the greatest of these…
They say love lasts forever.
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rosette
high above us, the eye of pigmented silica emits diffuse light.
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Feeling the Feels
Feelings are foreign to me; at least feelings over which I don’t have some sort of control.
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Sleeper, Awake.
I am currently calling us “Awake Ben” and “Sleeping Ben”, which (because I’m so clever, you know) works on a number of levels, both literally and figuratively.
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defying atrophy
look back at writings / thoughts of yore / and wonder where my / mind went.
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should be sleeping
though I really should be sleeping ~ leaking mind just keeps on seeping
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reaching
progeny / feeling the pressure
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Sonnet II – hope’s lament
I fear that I shall never live to see / a world that’s lived the way her God designed
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catching up
This is how It Is.
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Tattoo
a change on the inside / made outside / more tellable
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Epicenter-2007
It didn’t start there, and it would not end there, but I now recognize the events of that day as my life’s epicenter.
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the key
sometimes what lies behind portals with padlocks will scare you so much that you think you will die…
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I kept (it) to myself
I kept (it) to myself / oh, so long – for far too long…
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June 30
and now July can come to me / my soul no more disjoint, it’s free
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emergence
How long can that caterpillar stay in chrysalis before it dies and can never emerge?
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a book of many pages
Oh, that’s sounding better – God’s deeds and not mine / perhaps I am still off the hook / but who fought the “physical” part – got in line? / you’ve got to remember to read the whole book.
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Jagged Bones
I need you to see some flesh on the jagged bones of the life themes I’ve expressed in my poetry.
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shine, sun
I need to be where sunlight shines / Its glow transforming – outside, in.
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righteous? anger
when love and indignation muddle, ’tis hard – which to express?
