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The Change

January 14, 2019December 29, 2020 ~ MWctn ~ Leave a comment
Christmas flirted for the 67th time
with the winter of my 68th year,
skirting just ahead of my birthday,
and felt much the way an old friend
who has changed

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Lady

December 19, 2018December 29, 2020 ~ MWctn
Striking off
the major track
to the small black road
tangent to her house
he saw a car approach,
and she was driving,
the children that
she bore close beside
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A Wind

October 20, 2018October 22, 2018 ~ MWctn ~ Leave a comment
This poem was written as a tribute to the talent of Ms. Lili Reinhart, a young actress whose cameo at the conclusion of the rather somber movie “Galveston”, touched me

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The Sun

December 25, 2017December 29, 2020 ~ MWctn ~ Leave a comment
The sun came into my room
and it was so bright
I couldn’t see
and I forgot where I
put my sunglasses.
But everything was so white
they probably wouldn’t
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Away

December 17, 2017December 29, 2020 ~ MWctn ~ 1 Comment
The snow about me
stuttered by the boughs
of conifer giants
drifts in halting clumps
to my shoulders
inclined toward you
as is my heart
in warm vital relief
to
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The Sharing Space

November 8, 2017December 29, 2020 ~ MWctn ~ Leave a comment
My time,
the time
within my head,
what my heart measures
of your visits here,
is time that beats
in pleasure
queer to your arrival;
that time is time
that
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Moon Tides

October 17, 2017November 2, 2017 ~ MWctn ~ Leave a comment
 
Perhaps you sleep now.
Perhaps your dreams
have washed
and steeped and
sired the day’s
illusions and events,
deep flows of
one from another,
to a place unknown,
but
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The Lady of Arisaig

October 5, 2017October 22, 2018 ~ MWctn ~ Leave a comment
The distillation of an old Scottish joke, into the form of a limerick by yours truly, for your amusement.

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Tangent 4

August 19, 2017August 19, 2017 ~ MWctn ~ Leave a comment
Speculation
So far as we have been able thus far to determine, our species’ transcendence over our one-time close-quartered Neanderthalic cousins occurred with

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Crowded

August 17, 2017December 29, 2020 ~ MWctn ~ Leave a comment
She stands the protests
of the crowded air,
a cloud of bad
and good intent,
and votes fair truth
in fevered space
before the chance is rent.
She probes and
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