Tagged: steps

at week’s end, trading

at week’s end, trading
ten thousand steps for tulips 
on the railroad tracks
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we find ourselves on

we find ourselves on
the same steps minutes, sometimes
years later, the same

slippery doubt, unsure footing,
needing someone’s hand to hold
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we are steps from the

we are steps from the
buluowan suspension
bridge, tracking prey land
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on beigang old street,

on beigang old street,
we crisscross paths, eating first
with only our eyes

before tracing our steps back
with our patient appetites
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after a while, life

after a while, life
overlaps, retraces steps
even to move for-

ward, trips into dna
mutations, finds a way back
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a set of stairs – an

a set of stairs – an
administrative burden
to both knees and wit
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we are ninety-three

we are ninety-three
traditions away from under-
standing each other,

sixty excuses from trying,
one yield away from accepting
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even in between

even in between
the spans of two steps, forward
or backward, there will

be micro-tears in the muscles,
in time, in relationships
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: micro-tears

by day’s end, we are

by day’s end, we are
two naps away from
a full recovery,
two or three steps
from the sea
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