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found

7/25/2015

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take me again

by the hand

with you and the sea

and the expanse of

life ahead

I cannot be lost

©Erin Croley

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©Erin Croley Manzanita, OR
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incubation

7/25/2015

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the dream of Oregon

settles back in

I escape bed early

to sit with it

connect it to the grass grown wild

and become irrational

about complacency

©Erin Croley

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too much water

6/16/2015

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distant planes and the blast

of a train horn

support the morning chatter

 of Cardinals, pigeons, pileated woodpeckers

and some high-pitched warble

I can't place

I stand in the middle

of what should be a walking path

with a steady current washing

over my feet

stare at yellowed strawberries

stunted cucumbers

and decide to drink coffee

©Erin Croley

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ritual

3/20/2015

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curled together with heads bent

and legs tucked like pretzels

we share dreams to greet the day

I envision us

as an egg

he asks

how my belly opens

because he wants to return there

"for 100 years"

and I find it hard to accept either

as impossible

©Erin Croley

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yesterday

3/20/2015

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I don't know the stages of dementia

but today's blend of current reality

with high school,

where some of us are occasionally lost

and she is happy,

seems better than yesterday's tears

and anger at knowing

it was going to happen.

©Erin Croley

(from a #WordStew prompt)

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rare morning

3/19/2015

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rare morning
she wakes and seeks
her daddy's lap
and I get to listen
to their whispered words
a love story
of endless questions

©Erin Croley
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surrender

3/19/2015

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droplets suspended
surround
encapsulate
light struggles with the opaqueness
emerges a filtered haze
but cannot penetrate
the quiet
and the falling
of fog

©Erin Croley
(from a #MadVerse prompt)
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mythology of a warrior

3/19/2015

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the mythology
of a warrior
is full of
conditions, but
the only one that is necessary
is love

©Erin Croley
(from an #ntitle prompt)
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never the same

3/19/2015

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they say each day is never the same
these gray skies and wet tabletops
make it difficult to distinguish
but this beautifully-fat wren-like bird
suddenly appears
from the center of an evergreen shrub
jumps to balance on the tip of a branch
and I remember the earth is in motion

©Erin Croley

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kiln songs

3/18/2015

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the sky is flat
unbaked clay, still dusty
waiting to take a breath

morning yawns and stretches
repeated chirp
the simple pattern of a heartbeat
rises above other awakenings
even as it fades
over time and distance

a hawk's piercing call
slices through
seems a moment of clarity
but it silenced the birdsong and
left a wake of confusion
slowly retuning
its peaceful cacophony

a horizontal sliver
cracks the gray
blue glazed hints
promises of brilliance

©Erin Croley
(from #MadVerse,  #Magick_Words & #MSpoetry prompts)
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