Tagged: neighborly
in the summer of
in the summer of
the carolina reaper,
our tomatoes dared
to wander over, lean its
vines upon those spicy branches
.
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between this side of
between this side of
the road and that side of the
road is some sort of
redemption – it takes a crossing,
two pints of restoring words
.
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: restoring
with proper distance,
with proper distance,
the border stands out, you know
exactly when and
where to stop, appreciate
boundaries, be neighborly
.
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: appreciate
your dad trimmed your trees
your dad trimmed your trees
for the neighbor’s fire pit, folks pitch
in when they can – when
did down-home hospitality
become another illusion
.
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: hospitality
before she becomes
before she becomes
fully human, Vivienne can
break up time in the
middle of the night – in cries, in
song, penetrating walls and dreams
.
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the neighbors upstairs
the neighbors upstairs
are rehearsing their
three a.m. scene
again – two
pairs of god-given
lungs made of the
same brilliant mettle,
awake and stirringly
alive, a private
performance for
an audience of
at least twenty
families – he thinks
she’s overly
dramatic, she
thinks he should
go to hell, and
the majority of
the action
creaks stage left
.
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it is difficult to see
it is difficult to see
up close, but from
afar, there is a
staged choreography
in the most neighborly
of communities
.
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