NPM13 12-16, Playing Catch up!

So April is over.
Cut me a bit of slack though. I started late and was still in -oh-my-god-I 0just-pushed-a-child-out-of-me-shock.

On the plus side Spring and etc. I'm finally feeling like writing again, and while none of these were posted in April, some of them were created or inspired in April. So that is something.

12: Penny Poems

I wish I could keep poems
like pennies in my pockets

I'd pluck one out whenever
I needed to make you smile

13: The Dancer

Foulette, Adagio
Pas de chat and Plie
Tendu or Sur le cou-de-pied
En croix
complex sounding
sometimes actually
complex
to perform 
but the desire
the need
that drags her across the floor
is simple

14: Baby Face

A giggle, a laugh
followed by a reddening
of your face
and then a cry
loud and shrill and alive
and then a sigh

how easily and fully
you feel
those feelings rushing by
before we can comprehend
the delicate little whys

15:  a Family now

My evenings with you
were always nice
a movie, a meal
maybe getting a little extra work done

The weekends would be long
as short as they were
and full of just you

then we went and made the two of us
three
and when the hecticness of the world wind of family
and friends and coworkers and balloons
settled into the days that finally became seperate
again
and finally became whole

there were evenings with you
and with him
and weekends full of us
and "nice" became right
and whole
and wonderful

16: Bad Writing

Sometimes my writing is just
bad

Not campy bad
Not funny bad
Not bad oh-no bad

Just bad

baaaad

And the word bad
when said enough
loses all meaning
and just becomes a sound
bad
ba - d
b- ad

just like my writing
the pieces that are bad
that is





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