#101

 [10.17.2021]

i played an avian board game
with facts about birds
on all the cards
and i couldn't believe
how much you taught me

[10.25.2021]

i haven't written
because i haven't had the words
to say i'm afraid
i'll just abandon you
again

...and aren't you afraid, too?

sometimes i wonder
how you could trust me
but maybe i'm projecting

regardless
the world would be
a lesser place
without you

#100

[09.22.21]

neither a naiad

nor a nymph

the valkyrie's blade

(vorpal though it is)

severs my soul

as for the knife edge

of the mobius strip

i hope it's just a metaphor

---------------

"i've been one poor correspondent

and too, too hard to find

but it doesn't mean

you ain't been on my mind"

#99

[09.03.2021]

would you

want to

walk through

wooded waters

with me?

i would

intercept

insect stings

so you could

shoot

swans' wings

#98

 [07.30.2021-08.07.2021]

ApoloJaws 3 in the Land of Oz (soon in 3D)

to shoot the oxygen tank
or sink like Quint
i'm sorry
but i'm not sure what to do
    (or who is who
    in this clanky metaphor
    ...and are the shark teeth
    even real?)

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if i said
you've had
    smarts
        love &
            courage
all along
would you listen?
    ((((even from a humbug
        behind a curtain?))))

because i'm tapping
my red-sequined heels

and should i encounter you
in the silver city
that's what i'd say

#97.5

[07.21.21]

couldn't figure out how to end this

hiraeth
soon to be sated
for this i have waited
afraid
my breath it is baited
for i have created
an image i've hated

... i'm coming home soon

#97

[07.15.2021]

more apologies

i don't have the right

i shouldn't have started this

because while i'm doing better

than i have since i moved

        (and i hope you are, too)

my feelings for you

are still the same

in most every way

which will only hurt us both

down the line

sorry for that

        (again)

and for my terrible diction

especially compared to yours

i'm out of practice

and besides

what else should i write?

#96

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