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Welcome! I am so happy you have chosen to spend some time with me today. It is an honor to have you here. It means the world to me.

I want to share my heart, journey, and skill-set with all who wish to participate and co-create with me.

Mostly, I’m having fun.

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A Poem: Fxck Florida & Flat Earth

5.18.23 Flat Earth. Flat lunged. I couldn't breathe. The sky cerulean shocked white cotton clouds within reach. Unlike the mystery Sonoran star-scape, these heavens were a rubber skullcap suffocating hopes and dreams. I could see for miles ahead. And behind. And beside. No sentinel mountains guardians gone. No glittering mirages or valleys of gold. I…

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Eyes Like Knives (Revisited)

"Eyes Like Knives" [Revisited 08.08.23/ Original 01.27.05] The pillow supporting your head is fuzzy. I focus on subtle eye twitches. The shiver of nose hairs shaking with life. It’s the extra light reflected off toasty skin. Peppered whiskers glint. I’m cross-eyed from the precision cut of your jaw. The gentle slope of your nose. Pink…

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Music of the Light

Inspired by “Music of the Night”   from Phantom of the Opera   (Andrew Lloyd Webber  Charles Hart / Richard Stilgoe)  Daybreaks warm  feeling light.  Mourning doves sing  a freight of melody.  Euphoric Nature’s symphony.  The staccato rhythm  of the rattlesnake,  the patter of rain to petals,  a chorus of   flora and fauna  show the World   where…

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An Ode to Onions

“Wake up Alice in 2021” (rewrite from 2005, in 2020, for 2021) Love’s tenacious. Lingers back of throat thick in onion or garlic gut. Her deep awkward burps. Verbal leakage mind-slips. Love’s invasive. An ivy shaped holy golden lattice envelopes my dermis.  Love’s a shield. Cast out your pesticides – It’s time to wake up…

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it snowed.

2019 Tonight it snowed. Briefly like us Manifested at night – for a second Dissolved by light – in an instant we were Magical Magnificent temporary. Not a flake survived the pavement.

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