He's a string-strummer idea-generator music-maker harmony-finder chord-creator bandmate and friend

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Between rows of trees, branches weighted with apples - the scent of decay - yet there's sweetness on our tongue as we sample the season

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A few too many words, wouldn’t you say, sit inside the bins of this rather long, ramble-on mess of words and lines and bent rhymes and something’s bound to be wrong when you just keep on writing, fighting the urge to edit away, to parse away, to cut away what needs to be cut, but you can’t even trust your gut anymore, because you know how it is when you’re writing your way out of a rut; everything tumbles loose like an avalanche, and only later, when you force yourself to sift through, to rescue, if only by chance, the thing you need the most; the verse that sits inside the mess of the poem

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I remember the time she told me I was doing it all wrong

Not a careful steeping, but a mad rush of hot water

She took my hand, and we let the kettle sing its song

then waited for the tea to make magic a little bit longer

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It's the fold between night and day - Am I even here?

Very Doubtful

I hear the rush of something in the leaves - Should I even care?

Ask Again Later

A car approaches, and I pull the dog aside — Should I wave?

Concentrate And Ask Again

Shall I wave?

Yes

I did as you told but there was no response - How shall I behave?

Better Not Tell You Now

The sun begins to climb and morning breaks — Is this the end of an all-nighter?

Signs Point To Yes

I'm talking to a voice of a object from childhood - Does that make me a writer?

Without A Doubt

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Something sweet sounds like a cupcake with licked white frosting on our fingers, forever in that remembered moment of closed-eye deliciousness, when quiet contentment turns into loved laughter

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but (something) beautiful - the way the sound of the night plays against the echoes of the stage, notes bending in the light of each fading day

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The muskrat, Chuchundra, trembles as he relays the news - his cousin, Chua, reminded him: snakes are everywhere - Can't you hear? Can't you hear?

for #OpenWrite Riff off Rikki Tikki Tavi

Whipped cream frosting on a whipped cream cake

My mother, tossing sugar, with the oven set to bake

A once-a-year adventure she'd once agreed to take

I'd sit and watch her work, and dream and contemplate

then after celebration, we'd dig in, without haste

I'd close my eyes in wonder and lose myself to taste

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So much becomes us only in reflection

dappled surface of river running towards the patient ocean

against the bend, the boat pushes against timeless currents

and then, the heart, a mirage we make real by remembering

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