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Year: 2020

The Vista Wide Unbroken

December 22, 2020December 22, 2020 ~ MWctn ~ Leave a comment
The vista wide
unbroken by the
sound of my heart
and yours
the drum of spoken
passion pounds upon the
hopes of both
and I would grasp
and not relinquish

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Dierdre 50

December 21, 2020December 21, 2020 ~ MWctn ~ Leave a comment
Cobalt blue
the frigid sky
pushed winter’s breath
and you would fly
the stolid eddies
to the solid earth
(but not to touch again
God’s family or your own)
fifty

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Lost Wax

December 20, 2020December 20, 2020 ~ MWctn ~ Leave a comment
From coldish clay of spinning wheel
the molding center splatters wet
and arcs and flies from forms intent
to rising tensions purposed there
the shape and use of wild speed

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The We That Cannot Be Found

December 20, 2020December 22, 2020 ~ MWctn ~ Leave a comment
It’s been three
years and more
now that I trace
between the I
that wakes
and the us
that sleeps.
Still,
I whisper your name
before I fall,
sometimes (quietly)

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By Marriage Only

December 20, 2020December 22, 2020 ~ MWctn ~ Leave a comment
Who by marriage only
swears what cannot
be broken with words,
that later spoken
bears more recent truth,
and fords the hope
of youth and love
once spent in ecstasy

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My Girl (Recitation)

December 20, 2020December 22, 2020 ~ MWctn ~ 1 Comment
My Girl
by MWctn
https://www.centraltonothing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/My-Girl-by-MWctn.mp3
Far from the shorn lawn
that scratches my back
July-born breezes brushing
cool upon my cheek
her catholic life
in cloistered circle
of the ones
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What’s in a Name (Recitation)

December 19, 2020December 19, 2020 ~ MWctn ~ 2 Comments
What’s in a Name
by MWctn https://www.centraltonothing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Whats-in-a-Name-by-MWctn.mp3
She changed her name
though in her mind
and on the page
it stayed the same.
The frisson of a
newer sound to
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What’s in a Name

December 18, 2020December 29, 2020 ~ MWctn ~ Leave a comment
She changed her name
though in her mind
and on the page
it stayed the same.
The frisson of a
newer sound to say
for baying at the moon
or

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Morning © by Deborah Ager

December 16, 2020December 16, 2020 ~ MWctn ~ Leave a comment
Morning
© by Deborah Ager
https://www.centraltonothing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Morning-by-Deborah-Ager.mp3
You know how it is waking
from a dream certain you can fly
and that someone, long gone, returned and you are filled with
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The Minotaur © by Eva H.D.

December 16, 2020December 16, 2020 ~ MWctn ~ Leave a comment
The Minotaur
© by Eva H.D.
https://www.centraltonothing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/The-Minotaur-by-Eva-H.D..mp3
I am the milkman, and the checkout girl.
I am the grocer, the conman, the faded saint
in the pawnshop window.
I am
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