January 6, 2025 · 12:49 am
Embrace
Coated by frozen rain, /
holly berries and leaves dress /
for winter’s embrace.
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January 4, 2025 · 5:09 am
Cancer
Cancer is Winter: /
Hard on the outer shell /
Opens inner seeds.
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January 4, 2025 · 5:07 am
Openings
Holes and promises,
openings undone until
fulfilled.
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January 2, 2025 · 11:57 pm
The Old Man
There was an old man who lived in a sign. /
His wife wouldn’t join him because she wouldn’t cosine. /
Now she lives adjacent to an empty hypotenuse. /
Her life a tangent somewhat on the loose.
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January 1, 2025 · 11:58 pm
Winter Laughs
The New Year arrives
Old Man Winter has a laugh
His cold strokes your hopes.
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December 31, 2024 · 11:55 pm
New Year’s Eve 2019
Tomorrow somewhere /
a New Year has begun. Here /
the old treatments linger.
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December 31, 2024 · 9:54 pm
The husk
In ten billion years /
the sun will be a cold husk /
The sunflower’s cold now.
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December 31, 2024 · 2:42 pm
Shuffle
You shuffle the deck /
then deal the icicles that /
define my future.
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December 31, 2024 · 7:07 am
Falling
Shadows play with clouds; /
the sun descends as if /
falling through a dream.
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December 30, 2024 · 1:09 am
Memories and seeds
Snow becomes the past. /
Seeds wait, memories to come. /
Seasons step around.
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