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milkweed

By: littlepeace November 1, 2022November 1, 2022

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while the roses were drinking
i set the milkweed seeds
sailing on the wind,
watched as the air currents
caught their silken parachutes
and bore them aloft
and out of sight

in poems

By: littlepeace April 7, 2022April 7, 2022

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in poems you are not required
to tell the truth exactly as it is —

i suppose i could say

By: littlepeace April 6, 2022

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i suppose i could
say nothing happened today
but that is a lie

dressed for spring

midway up the hill
the neighbor’s weeping fig
is dressed for spring
a gown of bridal white blossoms
shielding leafless branches.

if i had any rage i took it out on the lily bed and its web of ingrown roots the fruit of thirty years of spawning tigers i scythed and hoed, slicing through sod separating innumerable worms from their other ends and cleaving through the rusty orange roots that choked the ground until, at last,…

i saw her there

By: littlepeace April 3, 2022April 4, 2022

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i saw her there in the store
wearing lavender ankle pants and pearls and pushing a baby buggy
while two little girls in hair bows tripped dutifully behind

prelude

the sharp blade pierced the greening grass
and shovelfuls of soil revealed wakened worms
shrinking away from the light

skeptical soil

By: littlepeace April 2, 2022

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ten trees arrived in the mail today
their tender trunks scarcely more than twigs
but already I was imagining the bank
of white blossoms in the spring —
hawthorne, dogwood, crab —
and the pale hellebores i’d bought
that would start blooming in the snow