A shift in focus—
This whole, bright world reflected
In her dark window
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Vigil
Projection
Buttered popcorn ghosts
Haunt first-kiss back row shadows,
Our movie house closed
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Swan song
How many blue jays
Singing the morning, to hide
Her departing breath?
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Alaska Rose
Chasing after leaves
Tossed by small summer twisters
To be a puppy
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Exhaling
A brief romance ends
Breath swept away on the wind
Bound for distant squalls
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Aurora
An ocean away
Yesterday’s sun always shines
In Colorado
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California Peach
Sweet Malibu skin
I’m high on your summer scent,
Drunk on your juices
Ryan Stone
Wild is the Wind
She sets down her pen
Chaos and joy tumble in
Her boys and the wind
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Mermaid
In chartreuse waters
His floundering ship is lost
Eyes across the bar
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Sea lore
From deep sea trenches
Fiery-tasseled oarfish rise
A distant gong chimes
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days of stone 