no dragons burn and pillage even when lost in metaphorical forests. the children’s screams in the candy houses next door are real enough not to be just symbols in a jungian melodrama analyzed casually over a cup of tea. there are no stories to hide within. the steel-eyed king and queen handing down impartial justice
Gretel Lost in the World
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Gretel Lost in the World
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A Mirror Sees Only Itself
by
“my nature/is a quagmire of unresolved /confessions” –Robert Creeley, The Door I resist autobiographical Interpretations others imply When they ask about my work. I do not write to you, nor Even for you. I am no Placebo to numb your pain; No multi-car pile up To drive by relieved That it is some other;
A Mirror Sees Only Itself -
by
What’s the weirdest movie you’ve ever watched?
Erasure Head, David Lynch director
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So
by
So, I hesitate, thus
stumble on the next
shadowed step—
the surprise
where it was not before.
A flash of light on the stairs
breaks continuity
with the dark’s flow.
So, I recognizethe recurrent other.
I am, for the moment,
dizzy with doubt,
left to determine
my next step myself.
(October 8, 2026)
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Contrary
by
No I am not
just to say not
but to resist
the pat reply
to stand still
on the line
to push against
the cliched phrase
the simple answer
and ignore the grey
where talk hones
on night’s edge
and stars burst
like dandelions
across the sky
(October 2, 2026)
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Mirror, Mirror
a self-portrait
I rarely look
for very long
into mirrors
these days.
No one’s thereI know. I know
the cliche— I am
the mirror no more.
I see I’m old:mom’s tired face;
dad’s nightly stumbles
down the hall.
I am notwhat I see.
(October 1, 2026)
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by
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Everyday Prompts
by
Here, again, like now—
say these: I Don’t
Know, and In my Darkness
are recurrent phrases
cast continuously, and
which sit like seeds
waiting to germinate
on the fallow ground
of my mundane life.
(September 28, 2026)
