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For M.E.B.Her eyes wide and crisp,  Brighten in the sunlight  And a hat, lilac-colored,  And bundled around her  The bulb shining with thought.   
Look closely  And her head is dizzying  There is so much! To look at.   
Look then to her father –  How pride barrels  Itself around his chest,  Here, too, vim – the heart  Sings.  
 
And even more  Her  tiny hand forms a fist,  And then like petals,  
Her fingers unfurl, grasp  At the delicate things,  poppies, hibiscus, iris  And her eyes dart about,  Settle on the colors. For M.E.B.
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UnscrewA shift happens  That is, things slightly  Askew, I ask you,  “Where’d you find  
the time?” In minutiae  it begins.  Akin  to a thin shaft of bright;  light slipping through the  
slats in the blinds or the  
knock knock of the rain  
when it comes with  
its tiny silver feet shrouded  
in sheets and then there is the slightest  Nod forward toward silence,  
The warmth tunneling into  
The pits of our stomachs;  
Cold air.  We may be still  As solidly fragile as the frozen lake.  
As the dog-whelk, the porkweed,  
As t Unscrew
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Join the ClubEat it and we’ll let you up.  
   No.  
   You have to or you can’t come up.     It’s just stupid water with leaves and pine needles.  
   Well that’s the magic potion people have to drink in order to enter through the gates. If they die after they eat it, it means they weren’t strong enough.     I’m not going to.  
 
Suit yourself.  Just don’t ask if you can play in the tree-house again.     “Whether we fess up to it or not, much of how we act relies on camaraderie,” Neil boomed to the cla Join the Club
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Lying about SmilingThere was no sun but the wind  Carried the morning on her back  And came in through the window.  I was lying  Smiling, and then I half-opened  A lazy-lidded eye to see you  
Smiling, too.  
It would have been too difficult  
To explain why I was when you asked.  If I’d said, for example’s sake, go-carts,  
Bruno the Brazilian, high-moused helium  Voices, said Birthday or Balloons,  
To say I arrived at the smile through  Naming conventions, the first name,  
then the last… to say, while lying there,  
I was smiling about the waspy flavor  
of your l Lying about Smiling
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Wed Jan 16, 2008, 8:59 AM
Stephanie: great email. i love everything about it
me: haha. it's not supposed to be loved
Stephanie: i think everything is supposed to be loved ;)
me: oh wow. i see you've started on the pot
Stephanie: hahahah....actually it's more of a Molly statement. She was in love with so many people and things...that I was trying to see if I felt that way...and sometimes…as in the email...i do and have learned you can love a lot more than you thought…and it doesn’t have to be only specific people...I can "love" Andy for example, but not like we normally think...instead I could love him for his conversation, but not necessarily be in love. It could be the pot or crack I have been combining lately)
me: haha or the yoga. Same thing.
Stephanie: hahaha. Perhaps.
me: so.... yes. I think you can love many things in many different ways
agreed. I suppose the thing about it is not to conflate "love" with various emotions if other words can be used to more succinctly define what you claim to "love" in other words, i appreciate the candid nature of your emails, but this appreciation is not necessarily "love," but rather "appreciation."
Stephanie: I agree to disagree. Hahah.
me: or I enjoy the companionship of my friend, but to say I "love" spending time with him is not the best description of feeling. But yes, we can do that
agree to disagree
Stephanie: why limit love to just a person or a something...why put a cap on what you can love...because for us who are not in love, I think to feel full we must find love in other places...therefore I love your email :)
me: but what about a love hierarchy?
Stephanie: okay I can do the hierarchy, cause i guess i love my family more than ur email
me: i agree there but I also think you wouldn't say you "love my email" as much as you "love" your Mom, say. So to use "love" suggests a "love relativism" which could dilute the meaning of love when you do say it. If you love everything, you could just as easily love nothing because the word can be rendered meaningless. It’s sort of like a "little boy who cried wolf" effect. But to find contentment and appreciation in the seemingly most mundane things is, of course, the way to live one's life (i.e. the email).
Stephanie: I like the conclusion :) That will suffice.

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`GeneratingHype:iconGeneratingHype: Apr 3, 2008, 2:58:55 AM
Thank you kindly for the :+devwatch:! The support really means a lot.

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Mood: Joy *b1gfan:iconb1gfan: Mar 2, 2008, 1:47:18 AM
Thinking about the hummingbird in your voice ..flitting above the flowers of your words.
Mood: Love ~pearlingrain:iconpearlingrain: Mar 3, 2008, 7:52:10 AM
What a kind thing to say. Thank you.
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!amyperticone:iconamyperticone: Mar 1, 2008, 2:00:01 AM
Wow! You really are a brilliant poet, aren't you?

Why don't you join the poetry contest from [link] ?


It's free and every nitwit such as myself who enters gets a small gift

but someone like you might win one of their $10 000 or $100 000 prizes.
~colourmeblue:iconcolourmeblue: Nov 29, 2007, 8:55:45 PM
Your writing is astounding.

I must say, I am moved!

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=cubstock:iconcubstock: Oct 4, 2007, 1:39:12 AM
why thanks a lot for the :+fav: on my field of dreams pic [link] its muchly appreciated hope you can use it for inspiration for your artwork :hug:
~mobbyrules:iconmobbyrules: Sep 28, 2007, 10:02:43 AM
Thank you for the :+fav:.
~AboveVintage:iconAboveVintage: Sep 26, 2007, 2:00:07 AM
Thank you for the fave :)

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