Charmed Chaos
Musings on Life, Love, and Linguini
Spectrum
I took a nap and wept for no reason”
~ Jim Harrison from Songs of Unreason
And when I weep are my tears
the color of the turquoise sky
reflecting in my eyes
or are they the white feathered
clouds floating by with their weighted sighs. Read More
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Sea Level
“The mountains are so dominant
that some days the people refuse
to look at them as children
turn away from the fathers who beat them”
~ Jim Harrison from Songs of Unreason
She was the mountaintop on which I stood
Breathing the pure air, cutting my teeth
on slender fingers for she would give
everything to protect, to shelter, to feed.
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Twilight’s Dust
“Nearly everything we are taught is false except how to read”
~ Jim Harrison from Songs of Unreason
It’s hot in this stifling city with sidewalks teeming
outside her cloistered door the noise is deafening.
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Crushed
The stars once bright in eyes now faded and gray
viewing the world through tangled trees
a purple haze of permanent contusions,
amid barren thoughts of rotting leaves
the result of love damaged beyond reason.
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