Deliveries


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Some want the steepest
most harrowing delivery
the rockiest path
the heaviest boulder
 to lift from the stream.


Only recently
have I realized
I'm no longer among them.


That such things
aren't really necessary
for some enduring impression
of what it is to live,
to be stamped into the fragile paper
of who I'm imagining
 'myself ' to be.

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Mission, a sense of that

place it here, swaddled in silk

grace your favorite, unused platter

ring it with blossoms

roses, iris, daffodils

anything which conjures

your sense of resurrection

and being caught, like roots among stones

I'll regard this as if

it could be the last thing I'll ever see.

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               Scarcely visible

Getting comfortable

 with the flash defining my existence

surrendering my ring of keys

my notebook

my private monologue

the things I regurgitate repeatedly

until I can't bear them anymore.

My essence wishes to be clean and sleek

like some celestial tadpole

swimming out toward strange and deeply fertile

 space

squeezing into some profound, expansive 'not'.

Spread so thin,

scarcely visible

re united.