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the last pile of leaves

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

Bits of autumn strewn
about the lawn, stragglers in
a too warm winter.

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woman of the hour

Tuesday, February 7th, 2012

She let the party
and the presents slip by for
time with friends and fam.

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a sudden bout of homesickness

Monday, February 6th, 2012

Strange smells and noisy
motors, loud neighbors and cramped
closet. Time to flee.

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the real contest

Sunday, February 5th, 2012

The battle is not
on the turf but on the air,
dueling commercials.

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tech city

Saturday, February 4th, 2012

Beings from the near
future swarmed the terminals
to download updates.

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the loneliest group in the world

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

The broken parties
pulled up their chairs to confide
tales of hiding out.

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behind the storm

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

They crawled out, grateful
to be alive and thinking
about death’s house call.

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failure by proxy

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

Not so much bang and
whimper, but fading passion
and indifference.

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if she could talk to the animals

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

The caregiver wraps
booboos on scraped paws and sings
of quiet jungles.

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the state of dreams

Monday, January 30th, 2012

Some dream of escape,
others of the past, and some
see nothing asleep.

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the lambs have stopped screaming

Sunday, January 29th, 2012

The flock of fluffy
sheep crowded toward the streams of
grass on the bare plain.

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pastry crash

Saturday, January 28th, 2012

The sculpted tower
of sugar shatters into
bitter, sweet pieces.

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the accidental lab of the fifth dimension

Friday, January 27th, 2012

Somehow, the students
found laws of the universe
heretofore unknown.

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the warrior class

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

The soldiers trudge through
their ordered routine of long
days, boredom and shock.

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the persistent caller

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

He would ring up the
clerk throughout the week, only
to find the line dead.

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