Nancy Trembley

I don't recognize this container I'm in.
Where did it come from and when?
It happened overnight, I thought I had time.
I thought I had braced myself for this inevitable transition.
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My old dysfunctional friend
Knocked on the door again.
I keep telling him I'm not interested.
But he is very persistent.
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My father passed.
I wanted him to stay but god won.
I can't complain.
We had him longer than we could have thought.
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I was nervous it's been a long time since I've done this.
We met at a public space, simple,
The building the epitome of modernity.
It was light and clean inside,
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I'm really becoming concerned,
For my brown and black friends that are not being heard.
Their voices matter.
It really concerns me.
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I went to the bathroom to wash my face.
There was a baby fly in the sink, in my place.
Normally I'm one to carry them out.
But I don't like flies so without thinking.
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It's that time of year again.
You feel their excitement for weeks.
Their plotting and planning.
Their minds changing then changing back again.
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My favorite little furry friends.
So, cunning, curious and quick.
Amazing to me their agility.
They've been here for an eternity, forty million years.
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My plant is sickly.
Her hair like leaves are dry and brittle on the ends.
She looks so sad as I trim her locks.
I'm glad she can't look down at the pile of straw like hair scattered all around her.
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As I sit inside this vessel of sacred flesh and bone.
I ponder my existence, my passions, my place in this home.
I watch life moving.
Undulating around me.
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A book is a beautiful thing to me.
From the moment, I could read I was hooked.
A happy memory from childhood I'll never forget.
When I first learned to read simple books,
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I'm driving my car down a road.
A road, I've driven so many times in the past
But today I'm seeing an aspect
That I've never noticed.
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The ancient alchemists truly had the right ideas,
With knowledge in science, philosophy and mysticism.
They pursued a recipe for a phenomenal universal elixir
Which would cure all our un-eases.
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Humanity has become intelligent enough
To create scientifically advanced mechanics
To annihilate life.
Yet, not smart enough
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Oh God free me from this wretched prison.
My soul, bound to this body.
Chained to this earth.
Yet, honestly who chains me, but me.
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It's a beautiful sunny warm October morning.
Unusually warm for this time of year in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
I've decided to drain the pool.
The sun flickers beautifully off the water.
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I soar across a summer sky
Singing softly as I fly.
My feathers flutter on the wind.
This invisible gas whipping and whirling around me,
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My mother-in-law and father-in-law
Lost their daughter Suzy on June 2nd 2015.
It was a Tuesday.
I'll never forget.
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A tree ignoring me.
Standing quiet and stoically.
Knowing for decades
What we have to keep learning.
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Oh God free me from this wretched prison.
My soul, bound to this body.
Chained to this earth.
Yet, honestly, who chains me but me.
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