Tag Archives: Lake ache

{In which she writes after not writing for days and days and days}

Posted on July 29, 2020 by whimsygizmo

  She runs to breathe, and be -lieves that things will get better with the dawn. She holds that fire in her heart and wishes upon it, knows these days are numbers, fleeting. She is equal parts lake ache and … Continue reading →

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Mast (Mask) and Sail

Posted on July 31, 2018 by whimsygizmo

I dreamed I was more than moored, but less than Lake. That the shaking of these limbs (this breeze) was about more than trees (and less than song.) I dreamed I belonged to the sea, and that she gave me … Continue reading →

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Corners(tones) First

Posted on July 30, 2018 by whimsygizmo

.. She’s been home all of four days and she’s still trying to muddle-puzzle (befuddled, tear-puddled) out what this desert -cycle life is all about, how to scratch …..her name in more than Lake-soaked sand and …..the itch to be … Continue reading →

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a thousand shards of cobalt glass

Posted on August 8, 2016 by whimsygizmo

(singing her blues) .. she is all in -digo skin and turquoise streak, stitched denim in her wanting. her Lake ache is strong, but she belongs here, steeped in this desert sky. do you feel the tremble of her veins? … Continue reading →

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bare blue beauty

Posted on July 2, 2016 by whimsygizmo

  play magnetic poetry here. 

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Smiling in Shades of Blue

Posted on July 2, 2016 by whimsygizmo

….. The sky’s got a twinkle in her ………………(star-struck) eyes, a certain slant of moon sliver holding midnight court with breeze. These trees have got some secrets and they ……………….(wind-whisper) in leafy tongues some song we’ve seldom sung, to make … Continue reading →

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between breeze and bloom

Posted on June 26, 2016 by whimsygizmo

  play magnetic poetry here. 

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Breathing Blue & Palming Psalms

Posted on May 23, 2016 by whimsygizmo

Give her a Lake, some aching shade of blue. A place to glue her eyes to the horizon, and wait for the sun to meet her equilibrium gaze. Bare feet. A quiet sheet of white, waiting for song. A long … Continue reading →

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North by Northwest

Posted on March 24, 2016 by whimsygizmo

….. The cooperation of our wings allows the coronation of all this blue – recuperation at its finest hue, crowned in sifted sunlight, to the core. We don’t know the numbers, coordinates lost in translation. We only know true north, … Continue reading →

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