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Selected Poems Hubble Earth strains skyward on her tethered arc, the stars all golden fishes in this sea; I cast my limit to the boundless dark with filaments of light flung easily. My massive bulk turns in the firmament with one gigantic eye that never sleeps; mortal humankind out here have sent their priceless tools, their curiosity. They watch me watch for what they cannot grasp with human hands or handheld telescopes; I do not mind my slow work as I track the darkest pools of their remaining hope. And when at night they blink their final nod I turn and search relentlessly for God. Rapunzel's Escape Rapunzel used her own hair to climb down out of the tower walked off into a sparkling day with her suitor made an appointment at Fantastic Sam's for a cut-n-perm gave her locks to charity to fashion wigs for chemo patients got married moved into a split-level in a modest neighborhood in Bavaria had three children seven grandchildren still laughed when she remembered her escape— imagined the look on the face of her captor when the mad enchantress realized her prize had simply walked away. Doing Jack When Father visited out came Jack Daniels and I’d match him shot for shot until this imposing broad-shouldered stranger with the space between his front teeth couldn’t hurt me anymore. His brisk military questions asked with an Andy Griffith smile would roll off me like soap bubbles until I was feeling so light and empty inside it almost felt like love. |