Tagged: exchange
dad and his ruby-
dad and his ruby-
throated hummingbirds have an
age-old exchange – quid
pro quo – the language of love,
the language for survival
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we ask the world of
we ask the world of
our children, in exchange for the
weight of tradition
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how equitable
how equitable
is any given transaction? –
a moment in time
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you arrived in new
you arrived in new
york city from somewhere warm,
argentina, asked
us to take you to bubble
tea – we left footprints in the snow
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when one allium
when one allium
head bumps into another
allium head, what
mysteries do they exchange
in that quiver of purple haze
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at the end of the
at the end of the
day, i might come over for
coffee, you’ll knock on
the door for
a hammer, we will
exchange all
of the familiar
things without
touching the places
that are sore
.
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we will memorize
we will memorize
one another’s histories
all wrong, not because
we haven’t tried, but because
we may have tried much too hard
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: histories
back when we used to
back when we used to
exchange letters, everything
was more – like meeting
in grand central this november,
recalling the length of your hair
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let’s be up to our
i am opening
i am opening
a fresh package of
candied pinto
beans and
remembering
how you used to
carry them overseas,
from grandma to
grandma to
granddaughter,
hand to hand to
hand, an exchange
all at once
familiar and
unfamiliar, a
sugar-coated
nostalgia
.
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