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2x Pushcart Nominee;
Poet-in-Residence @ The Fictional Café 🥂

“Life Sucks”
humor: https://a.co/d/0qHin5u 🤣

“Echoes Lost in Stars”
poetry: https://a.co/d/76gM1Rt ☘️

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“Life Sucks” doesn't suck.
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- Hilarious, #satirical, and deeply human - like Monty Python with a colonoscopy.

- A must-read for anyone just in need of a damn good #laugh.

- Darkly #funny, brutally honest, and weirdly comforting.

Buy here: a.co/d/bX0YQE0
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west winds stir the hyacinths
bruised violet and blue
the crime scene-scented violence
of beauty’s cunning hue

bones litter the meadow grass
blanched whitish shades of gray
clueless little nibblers learnt
how the nose and eyes betray

all that glistens
is not gold
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#vss365 #poetry
January 4, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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my grandma
had an Irish phrase
for life’s bullshit -
navacancha.

instead of cussing,
she would often say,
that’s a buncha navacancha.

turns out,
it was a completely made-up word
and delicious example
of irony

when her word for BS
was, in fact, balderdash itself.
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#vss365 #poetry
January 3, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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words fade into birdsong;
my heart succumbs
to their lyric,
i have found my locus,

here,
where love is no longer
an abstraction,

but instead,
a meadow of wildflowers,
thick with pollen
and color unbounded.
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#poetry #vss365
January 2, 2026 at 12:16 PM
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another year passes,
not much new,
but always the promise
of change.

the light likes
to seem it presides,
but we shadows bide
free from skin cancer
and love’s feckless maladies,

sipping coffee,
taking delight in watching
how desperate we are
to be seen.
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#poetry #vss365
January 1, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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the orange messiah grins
over a manicured fairway

his blood-soaked grips
tended by doe-eyed caddies

commoners
who dared dream of prouder days

now all is flesh,
tax and transaction,

prouder days,
when they strove

to be something more
than servants of belief
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#vss365 #poetry
December 31, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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marooned
on an alien shoreline,

ammonia waves lap
midst hydrochloric rains,

diamond palisades
rise like altars
toward the black sun;

i have lost you
to its gravity.

my travels have ended,
alone, without a mission.
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#vss365 #poetry
December 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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snowfall
Friday fish fry
at the Masonic temple

crowd out the door
breath plumes from
the eager masses

the freemasons
switched from haddock
to sole

Father McGilty
thought the irony
a welcome distraction
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#vss365 #poetry
December 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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telescope nights
empty house
all the lights extinguished

cobwebs grow
inside the corridors
inside the mind

pretending there is life on Mars
little green men
abduct me
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#vss365 #poetry
December 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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pinned down in linen
touch slides slow
static dominion

euphony sidles
in the ache of a sigh
in the moan that follows
in the shivers
of passion’s eclectic finishes

coming up for air
finding you
and your wanton eyes
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#poetry #vss365
December 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
blizzard at night

plates rattled
pines scraping walls
wind tearing at shingles

morning light

blood darkening snow
fur and feathers tangled
struggle pressed
in clawed paw prints

snowblind white

tracks vanish
in the still that follows
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#poetry #vss365
December 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
#poetry
first Christmas without
my dad; writing helps me
survive the day's sorrow...
until tomorrow,
when my heart might heal
again. 🎄
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#vss365
December 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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covered
with the clinging detritus
of cardboard boxes

treelight tinsel twinkles
like silvery silvan tears

eyes smiling
absent light
don’t you like my gifts?

bloated
with all of this too muchness
alone with things

wondering
how you will ever survive me...
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#poetry #vss365 #Christmas 🎄
December 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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have you ever pondered
deep in a christmas midnight
how snow gathers
remnants of light?

we gather by the fireplace,
hands warmed,
hearts whole.

while a star shoots
across a pitch black sky,
drawn by love’s gravity,
faithful to its path.
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#poetry #vss365 #read
December 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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seeking grace
at the edge of the sea

thoughts drowned
in the relentless pound below

a throne of sunlight
feathers on the breeze

a horizon of daydreams
where you wait like a song

the jump is far less scary
than the fall.
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#poetry #vss365 #read
December 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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the night sky
casts ebon tides

pale eyes watch
pale eyes guide

i sway to the song
of Saturn’s turning

she beckons me deep
begs me to fly

pale eyes watch
pale eyes guide

you furl my wings
tether my rise
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#poetry #vss365 #read
December 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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the wasteland rages,
white & gray,
a snowblown case of entropy.

winds intone their agony,
snowdevils contort
in shadowed pagan rites.

against the seething scrim,
a yellowed tuft of grass
fights the desecration.

seeks a moment of peace -
apricity upon its blades.
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#poetry #vss365 #read
December 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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seeking absolution
beneath your watching eyes

i tore myself from the cross
so much blood & pain

holes in my flesh
shall never heal again

the grass
‘round Golgotha is red
& i lie prostrate

the laughter of crows
teaches me to be humble
beneath your watching eyes
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#poetry #vss365 #read
December 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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why am i so sad
when i have all that i want?

alone in Christmas quiet
the dog watches me weep

i never know what i need

yet pray for relief
that someday i might find

the gratitude in a sunrise
a meadow full of thrush song
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#poetry #vss365 #read
December 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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after the fall,
indistinct among the masses,
one snowflake separates
against a slate sky.

it alights gentle
upon my finger,
smiles in gratitude, lingers
then fades.

and i know
i must become a snowflake:

live singularly,
die beautifully,
depart with no regrets.
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#poetry #vss365 #read
December 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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mists draw thick ‘round riversedge;
i shiver in the kneedeep
of its currents.

memory grows graceless with age;
blueskin mottles in decay
as though i am become a bruise.

but those nettling pains all succumb;
there is only mist and current
and what recalls me.
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#poetry #vss365 #read
December 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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the angel in black
steps from the shadows

tell me of death,
i implore

she smiles,
there is no death
only the absence of memory

her hand
cold and soft
leads me through the doorway

there is light
and awe
and nothing.
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#poetry #vss365 #read
December 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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i want to paint you
still, beneath the stars

your golden hair crowned
in a circlet of oleander

fireflies dancing wild
in your boho eyes

beside the hawthorn
upon the ivy & moss

that we once called
our altar to love

a place of sacrifice
before we knew surrender
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#vss365 #poetry #read
December 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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you promised me safety
high in this aerie,
an heir to the air
and all its promises of flight.

far away,
a monotonous line of mountains
keeps the monsters
at bay,

i want to see them.
but you say not today,
for wings require feathers,
and no feather can be found.
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#vss365 #poetry #read
December 14, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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harvest skies beckon
us from our slumber,

eyes full of sleep,
hearts full of wonder.

a full moon
nearing its apogee,
subtle in its demise,
sighs…

for it knows
tomorrow’s reprise,
much like love,

will be a bit less grand,
less gentle in its light.
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#vss365 #poetry #read
December 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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a shattered throne
casts no shadow
beneath the stars of heaven.

stars are cold and dying things,
gathering their final heat
for succor.

there shall be no successor
to the king.

bells ring at midnight.
nightingales fall from the steeple.

long may he reign.
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#poetry #vss365 #read
December 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM