I was born in Florida, and I reside in a small, rural fishing and drinking town named Steinhatchee. I see the ocean nearly every day, and I dream of catching fish from my boat. I have four unique children, and an equally unique wife. I like the way the wind affects the water of the Steinhatchee river mouth that leads out to the open ocean, and it reminds me of poetry. Sometimes it's rough or smooth, and sometimes there's a light chop.
I tried the new Kleenex
You know! The kind with the lotion
and I made that familiar blowing motion
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things seen others do not
can see where blind is
at times not blind to that
only when in said blind
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She said, 'You must have an awful lot of time on your hands'
Then would I not have what is most valuable on my hands?
And then I want to flick the ticking seconds from my fingers
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sweetly donning dark of day
in glimmer of shadows
and sun strewn through
the wind of trees
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I need them to see my bones
in glass jars,
bone-on-glass-sounds as they rattle me
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