Tagged: histories

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

if we look back far

if we look back far
enough, we will find where our
histories splinter –

perhaps one of us will protest,
say it didn’t mean anything
.
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: splinter

tell us your stories

some histories

some histories
are just inked
stronger, the
way traces of
an old romance
can remain
visible beneath
St. Augustine’s
meditation on the
psalms. define
renunciation
when your lips
are this close,
deciphering
a way back
.
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reading between

reading between
the lines, under
God, there are worlds
of pagan wonder
erased, written over,
sandwiched, shelved,
waiting for a world
to take the challenge
.
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histories gather