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"If you stumbled here,
I hope some of my poems and words
can make themselves at home with you."
.soli
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Stomata
A drop loses herself in the puddle, The river's spirit is engulfed Ushered downhill from high To low altitudes all sentient sentiment...
soli
Feb 18, 20221 min read
The Wind Plays a Twisted Flute
I When told a twisted flute cannot carry A dulcet tune, that we are all hollow now, try as we might To ignore distant calling chimes....
soli
Jan 30, 20213 min read
Humus weighs heavy (a tanka)
Humus weighs heavy Swaddled in thick mire mantle Sleep now, nimble bud Among writhing roots forlorn Tall shall sprout Sun's blade reborn
soli
Jan 12, 20211 min read
Here Lies a Sandcastle
I brought a bucket to collect The remnants of your castle Buried under shores since flattened, I know you stood Right here I know this is...
soli
Nov 17, 20202 min read
Dancing Dust
Have you seen the Dust Tracked-in soil, Dead debris scratched off my shoulder White sheet, to pull over Our heavy heavy heads A thin...
soli
Nov 8, 20201 min read
Passenger Seat
The further I go, the smaller everything behind me becomes Through the passenger seat window A slow drive down nursery's lane Each house...
soli
Nov 6, 20201 min read
The Painting Unfinished
When paint meets A blank canvas, It is a mansion With a ceiling That meets the clouds It is a stroll through Corridors, with A thousand...
soli
Oct 25, 20201 min read
Nice to meet you
Let this verse mark the day we met: when strangers become less strange there is both more and less to fret the length of my words gently...
soli
Oct 4, 20201 min read
Overview Effect
They say, when you are furthest away divisions of land, quarrels of man become lost in fog's vastness, where we hang suspended from a...
soli
Sep 16, 20201 min read
Falling Leaves
Amidst the falling leaves I find myself caught inside autumn's breeze light as a feather weightless and f r e e— somewhere in limbo...
soli
Sep 11, 20201 min read
Fabled Dot
There it is. The fabled Dot. a subtle punctuation. That marks the end of your turn. Decider of fates: at the end of your turn. Split,...
soli
Sep 4, 20201 min read
Beyond this Body
show me the line where I end, and where the world begins; then, I will prove in times sealed — I still move this body, once mine does...
soli
Sep 4, 20201 min read
Sleepless Nights
I hear, a rumble outside as I tumble, tug, and turn ever resisting the pull of the clock; the hour that parts me from me the hour that...
soli
Sep 4, 20201 min read
Jane Doe with her fatal flaw
In memory of Jane whose fatal flaw —was to be, whirled into a world too young.
soli
Aug 29, 20201 min read
A light knock
a phosphene is when light appears without light entering through door's teeth and how funny it is to reflect; when burrowed deep in the...
soli
Aug 21, 20201 min read
Bee haiku
On petal pillows the sweet tooth bee sank softly, into nectar dreams.
soli
Aug 9, 20201 min read
Blank pages
When I hold your diary unfinished, it hides no blank pages; for the could-have-been entries are keen to be seen, like words alive...
soli
Aug 7, 20201 min read
Eulogy to Poacher's Ears
What hubris, an animal who wears ears like a pendant, rather than harps strung for listening to musical prowess found surging through...
soli
Aug 2, 20201 min read
The Child of a Mulberry Tree
When I peer down at my hands I see a pattern of a weave imprinted in my palm from the basket we carried when you taught me In our nook in...
soli
Aug 2, 20201 min read
Plight inside the Aviary
A little bird perched beside me talons clutching the rail of a patio chair, like a brooding elder observing over my shoulder and I...
soli
Jul 28, 20201 min read
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