Through Windows

Connected people speak in words I don’t understand;speak of worlds I’ve never visited;tell jokes I don’t get.I watch them through the window. People stand coupled off. They whisper.Hands held; secrets shared; bodies touching;couples embrace.I watch them through the window. Busy people rush by,complaining of their lack of time.They run off to their next place to …

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The Phoenix

They were talking in the kitchenwhen she saw them roll their eyes.She had always been the black sheep,so she wasn’t that surprised.They were serious & worldly;she was sheltered & naive.Yet, she had lived a lifetime by the age of 33. She thought, “I have been to Hell & back,the Devil was my sire.But I beat …

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