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Window of the Afternoon Sunlight

 

After a restful sleep
my thoughts became free
and weightless

I awoke to the light of an overcast day
filtering through closed blinds
a soft glow filled the room

As the afternoon sun  
streams through the blinds 
it creates an outside inner-light

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The Streets of Rome

When I Paint My Masterpiece ~Bob Dylan

Self Portrait ~BD © Wikipedia

There's trouble everywhere You look    You see? I'm at a station    Downtown    Just north of Bonneville Where the trains    Come in every morning Packing PPG    For the dying       You see? Maybe I shouldn't put it so bluntly    But the plague    Left Europe    And found a home In the golden glo...

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Handle Bar Tape and Pinwheels - A Haibun

illustration © denisserkov

Searching for old friends behind the empty docks of a suburban shopping mall, I'm rushed with nostalgia—the ghosts of comrades, the tinsel and glitter of five-and-dimes, Black Cows, Turkish Taffy, and the adolescent sparkle of 50¢ wine—Ripple and Cold Duck. The joyful tears we cried, the shadows of our childhood cast like lures, fly fishing in the streams of conscious...

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