Tagged: alert
always alert when
always alert when
there is food to be had – the
grapevine is thick with
bait for any situation –
white-tailed deer have legs made of springs
.
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the people we know
the people we know
and love, loved, still love are quite
easily the same
people who shoot to kill – warning:
not-an-intruder alert
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the robins that built
the robins that built
its nest in the crook of our
white dogwood tree stayed
alert, with squirrels advancing –
no one knew the aftermath
.
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maybe there were three
maybe there were three
more sirens than there used to be
in the middle of
the night, even in brooklyn, we
started counting, newly alert
.
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: alert
we stretch to
we stretch to
normalize more
nimbly than we
care to admit –
staying alert
is a constant
mourning
for what came before
.
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one in eight children
one in eight children
are traumatized by
that early morning
realization of missing
the school bus. it
still sneaks into
our slumber, the
mechanical stop-
sign arm, that air
brake sigh, the
unmistakable
national school
bus chrome,
shrinking in
the distance
.
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