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Incarnations of You
Read more: Incarnations of YouIncarnations of You by Carmen H Gray The other night I sat beside you Laboring away on mundane paperwork We seemed to be in a loop of absurdity Waiting for Godot Were you Vladimir or were you Estragon? In the perpetual spiral of suffering We are constantly climbing out of You made me laugh In…
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e=
Read more : e=e= by Carmen H Gray What shall I write today? I asked When e= were the two keys my fumbling fingers Had accidentally pressed into the keyboard I looked at those symbols That took up empty space Energy equals mass Even when that mass is deathly quiet The resistance used or wound up tight Every…
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Boxes
Read more: BoxesBoxes by Carmen H Gray I sifted through old things in boxes today A positive pregnancy test A dress she wore when she was 6 Her port from the chemotherapy Letters upon letters: “you will kick cancer’s ass” “This sea glass reflects a light in you” “Can I please have a bunny, mom? I want…
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Motherhood
Read more: MotherhoodMotherhood by Carmen H Gray Spots of blood that were a scare I was full of milk and longing For sustaining little lives belonging In all of those early sunshine days Of playfulness Of exhaustion, too And the middle years Became filled with tears and cuts The broken hearts The diagnoses of the starts of…
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Left
Read more: LeftLeft by Carmen H Gray What’s left? In the hemispheres of life Where everything has been divided The kid glove of yesterday And rosemary scented concoctions The sticky spices of today Stewing in tomorrow’s brew What’s left? When the pitty pats and tippy toes Have left their well worn socks In the corners of your…
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An Element of Blank
Read more: An Element of Blank“Pain—has an Element of Blank— It cannot recollect When it begun—or if there were A time when it was not— It has no Future—but itself— Its Infinite Contain Its Past—enlightened to perceive New Periods—of Pain.”-Emily Dickinson An Element of Blank by Carmen H Gray I am enlightened to perceive An Element of Blank Meaning, I…
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Conversation
Read more: ConversationConversation by Carmen H Gray “I want what she has” Said air to the water Making and breaking bonds So easily I will absorb you And change you But water said, “I will be a heavy burden to you” As it dripped back down again And air sighed its flighty sigh
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Circle
Read more: Circle“We can’t return we can only look behind From where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game”-Joni Mitchell Circle by Carmen H Gray Equidistant Perfect movement forward Sliding Downward Then Upward Each point containing Its own perfect perspective Of Existence All around us Vectors teaching us A…
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Today
Read more: TodayToday by Carmen H Gray Light sensitive, feathered and tethered Look what that lent you: Experience, beauty, rugged ripeness Positive and Negative space And all the in-betweeness Because life is not Black and White, my love It’s a spectrum of colors bleeding out To meet you If you are willing to take its hand And…
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View From Above
Read more: View From AboveView From Above by Carmen H Gray A branch broke under his weight I looked up and saw only the white tips Of a grand wing span The sun cleansing fetid remnants of forages His eyes met with mine As if to say, Patience, my queen Learn how to reprocess life For I am the…
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