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a gift from sunny florida

By: littlepeace January 25, 2023January 27, 2023
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every year at Christmas
my grandfather’s sister
sends him a box of oranges
from Florida — sometimes
grapefruits, too, which he
prepares for us of a morning
with an expert hand

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secret seeds

By: littlepeace January 24, 2023January 27, 2023
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my sister gave me a dish
of seeds in soil, saying
if you keep it watered, someday
beautiful things will grow.

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imago dei

By: littlepeace January 23, 2023
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he sat huddled in his black puffy parka
on his black plastic chair
at the bottom of the exit ramp

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it is love

By: littlepeace January 21, 2023January 23, 2023
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when i wake in the night
reason once more shattering into darkness
it is love that leads me back to light

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the sleepy daffodils

By: littlepeace January 20, 2023January 23, 2023
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around the redbud tree
the sleepy daffodils
are beginning to wake up
and poke fragile arms
out toward the sky

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in retrospect

By: littlepeace January 19, 2023January 19, 2023
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in retrospect perhaps
i should not have made
that two o’clock pot
of joe

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the life before

By: littlepeace January 18, 2023January 19, 2023
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i used to get up early
and through the kitchen window
watch the pale light of morning
deepen into gold

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we are not the girls we were

By: littlepeace January 17, 2023
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we are not the girls we were
now with sorrow-hollowed faces
and sufferings’ silver threads
mingling with the gold

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entry log

By: littlepeace January 16, 2023January 17, 2023
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i have not tasted
chocolate for ten days.
what more is there to say?

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i took you on a walk today

By: littlepeace January 15, 2023January 16, 2023
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you didn’t know it, but
i took you on a walk today —
for whatever i beheld i saw
with eyes that wanted yours
to see it too.

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I'm an editrix, a writer, a poet, a photographer, and a wielder of butter. I love Jesus because He loved me first.

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