Tag Archives: letting go

Smashed Word Broken

Posted on February 7, 2018 by whimsygizmo

let all go – the big small middling tall bigger really the biggest and all things – let all go dear so comes love – E.E. Cummings   .. I am shedding my old skins again. Onion to apple, just … Continue reading →

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helium

Posted on October 6, 2015 by whimsygizmo

(a double tanka of) helium .. her mama gave her a balloon with Mickey ears. no hesitation, (fly!) she let go of the string and giggled it to the clouds. forty years later, with a full inflated heart, tired empty … Continue reading →

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I Don’t Know How to Let You Go

Posted on December 9, 2014 by whimsygizmo

… Your sneakers, your flannel, these grapes that snow. You’re too strong for these chocolate shavings, teenage years. Your leather jacket stings. I know. I dream of gingerbread and lipstick liquor, abandoned shopping carts and lack -luster things. It’s a … Continue reading →

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Invisible Grace

Posted on November 4, 2013 by whimsygizmo

….. Infinite, I close my eyes, and still I cannot see You. Impulse hits, emits some unquiet quarrel where hope should stand. I kneel, steal the day, steel my song, precise whisperings lost, tossed to wandered wind. I begin to … Continue reading →

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