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All Work


Language
Our childhood dreams call us
over and over again
and draw us inevitably closer
to our destined purposes.
Any attempt to elude their pull
just magnifies their magnetic power
and we’re drawn more tightly than ever
into our dreamy webs of purpose.
We are immersed in longings
which leave empty spaces to be filled
and childhood images which pulse
with adrenalin fear and aching desire
in a symbolic language
which seems foreign and cryptic.
We live our lives
haunted by fears, dre


Free to Dance (for Mother)
You were still warm
with whisps of silver and gray
on your parchment skin,
eyes shut tight against the world,
and lower lip hanging down.
I kept waiting for an intake of breath
one more breath
just one more for the road.
I felt the heat
at the top of your head
as though your mind
was still busy with thoughts.
Ahhh, but you are free now,
free of this old skeleton
fetally curled into itself.
You are free to dance again.
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