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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
Message to a Young Woman
Glowing, energized by life you seem to bounce
From room to room. Reveling in each moment, flirting
With danger you seek to saturate yourself with experiences.
Blindly leaping off a cliff. Happy to embrace
The unknown, leaving the dull tedious safty behind.
DESTRUCTIVE
Giggling, hiding behind a desperate facade,
1 part humor. 2 parts cockiness. 2 parts fear.
Facade in tow, you try [...]
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Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
Dreams. Delicate Dreams
The ability to dream, to imagine a world, a life
Different from the current existence. The day to day
Normalcy that fills the waking hours, leaving
A man hollowed. Filled to the brim with emptiness.
Dreams can be large, life altering creatures clamoring
For attention. Consuming energy and time in a tunnel vision
Driven marathon, leaving a man exhausted, gasping for
Breath. [...]
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
Standing By A Road in Early Spring, Paying Respect to a Dead Soldier As He Passes
A writing lesson on revision turns into a fieldtrip.
400 students lining the shoulder of a busy country road,
standing like so many bowling pins. Curious. Chatty.
Teachers pace up, then down the line.
“Step back from the road”
Faintly echos from the mouths of weary, worried, adults.
Laughing chatter dissipates. The purple flashing light
rolls slowly past. Orange flagged cars and [...]
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
Intern Seminar
For two hours I sit in group therapy,
observing. Feeling the tension, the exhaustion
stifling the room. In a circle I study
the faces of my fellow interns.
…..Frustrated…….Poor…
….Bitter….Distracted….
Trapped…….Tired…………Confused…..
………..Lost………Angry……..
…Hopeless……………Unhappy…….
..Insecure…..Bored……..Absent…..
Each face shines with a story, untold.
The death of idealism. Hope fades
as the questions mount. Teaching
is about questions. Some questions though cannot be answered,
and some answer are buried within.
Am [...]
