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What is the difference between fog and cloud, vision and ectoplasm? I lean into vapor, into you,planchette straining to letters of your name.I am candleflame, spark and flicker, votive.You are ghost, opalescent and translucent.Hovering mist. Virga.I see you in winter breath, steam rising like a promise from my cup.I carryContinue Reading

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In these waters lie gravesof my father’s blood, ancestorswhose final breath was water –rows of savage mountains,mantle of sea closing around them. They understood wind change,barometric drops, electric smell of lightning.Tide seeped inside their shells,turned in their bones – nowhere to hide. A glass dome covers me,covers ruffled bay, whisperingContinue Reading

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When he woke frisky this morning,I thought to cancel.But bad days outnumber good.He grows insubstantial,as though life vaporizes through skinthat hangs like laundry on a line,and he struggles to rise,each stiff-legged step painful. Fur-draped boneleaves few places to insert a needle.But he doesn’t whimper or struggle.He trusts me. I feelContinue Reading