tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69420480855561333132024-03-10T23:23:42.965-04:00Crying With A Sense Of Humanrivercathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266676584816215256noreply@blogger.comBlogger498125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942048085556133313.post-66212514641798794002024-02-14T06:01:00.004-05:002024-02-14T06:08:59.259-05:00predictive analytics - what's next<p> </p><p>I nap and dream haphazardly tapping </p><p>the portals of whispered fragments</p><p><br /></p><p>inside the words I see letters</p><p> animals </p><p>screaming from their cages </p><p>pacing</p><p>waiting to be unlocked</p><p>from shelter </p><p><br /></p><p>survivors of floods famines and fires</p><p>born again </p><div><br /></div><div>..</div>rivercathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266676584816215256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942048085556133313.post-37017040783887457632024-02-10T12:58:00.006-05:002024-02-11T06:46:24.381-05:00remedy for utopia<p><br /></p><p>Love unlocks doors and opens windows </p><p> frightens and exhilarates </p><p>A journey that contemplates the heart shape </p><p>because we can't know the shape of a soul</p><p>only dream glimpses identified by silent truths</p><p><br /></p><p> love is a ghost everyone talks about but me</p><p>a trace of perfection unlimited by the mind</p><p>There was that one time I didn't recognize your voice</p><p>with all the rooting and uprooting constantly going on</p><p>it was a cloudy night there were no stars</p><p>anywhere</p><p><br /></p><p>(#</p>rivercathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266676584816215256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942048085556133313.post-13975667309696057362024-02-05T10:52:00.000-05:002024-02-05T10:52:02.738-05:00pylon<p><br /></p><p>silence between sounds</p><p>the steps into forever filled with undertones</p><p>like the glittery lava</p><p>shaken out into this cold dark</p><p>unfeeling place</p><p>or the tiny life inside a fragile voice.</p><p>it's going to be someone , and if it's not about</p><p>how love can't rest or learn how to listen</p><p>or making me as every</p><p> if I</p><p>for a short piece go too long I just stop</p><p><br /></p><p>%</p>rivercathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266676584816215256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942048085556133313.post-15896187953870544912024-02-04T07:54:00.000-05:002024-02-04T07:54:02.935-05:00hermetic transmogrification<p> </p><p>born in silence the sky speaks </p><p>to the places of your imagination </p><p>symptoms drained out of words</p><p>capturing a half empty image </p><p>prismatic age caves of flames </p><p>turning behind shadows</p><p><br /></p><p>My thoughts </p><p>convicted </p><p>traitors</p><p>my lips assassins</p><p>of virtue</p><p><br /></p><p>my language is </p><p>squeezing my soul to fit</p><p><br /></p><p>_</p>rivercathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266676584816215256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942048085556133313.post-64554671109322681252024-01-31T14:45:00.003-05:002024-01-31T14:46:56.122-05:00mingle<p> </p><p>the great beauty in shadow</p><p>it calls out to me </p><p>to be kissed and held.</p><p><br /></p><p>once this was the first time</p><p>once without thinking of how i appear, talk</p><p>not everything was just chance </p><p>not everything wasn't that long ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>in the end. when we broke up</p><p>i didn't know how to be happy</p><p>I was assuming </p><p>I was the thing they called me</p><p>and now it's all just something in the past</p><p><br /></p><p>#</p><div><br /></div>rivercathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266676584816215256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942048085556133313.post-62810622780082244692024-01-30T10:12:00.000-05:002024-01-30T10:12:26.292-05:00 untangling at the end<p><br /></p><p>words weave inside me</p><p> caressing </p><p>spreading rays</p><p> into unknown dimensions</p><p><br /></p><p>destinations </p><p> as far away as</p><p>unspoken dreams</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> them again </p><p>I saw another metallic bird going west</p><p>a chemelon roach drone or a cycaida gsx possibly</p><p>what is your destination?</p><p> I'm too exhausted to make a rainbow now God. said</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>39</p><div><br /></div>rivercathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266676584816215256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942048085556133313.post-39709363205829076262024-01-25T07:18:00.007-05:002024-01-27T07:39:07.247-05:00 separating images from time<p><br /></p><p>detaching from the drama of life</p><p> experiencing situations through only senses </p><p> you allow a natural response to </p><p> what is</p><p><br /></p><p> images without thought </p><p>the present situation </p><p>seeing </p><p>without the distortion of the mind</p><p>allows you to not react.</p><p> forget both up and down</p><p>smiles or frowns</p><p>mixed all together</p><p><br /></p><p>Ago long ago </p><p>dreams rippled</p><p>through a lifeless</p><p>anatomy of antonyns </p><p>that swirled down, here into a heart</p><p><br /></p><p>*.</p><div><br /></div>rivercathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266676584816215256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942048085556133313.post-62654564227904331222024-01-19T14:07:00.005-05:002024-01-19T14:18:56.376-05:00 lightness or the empty space song<p><br /></p><p>maybe it's the lightness of empty space</p><p>but if it's not</p><p>I can't be sure about holding it all together</p><p>while trying to understand </p><p>the wind, the woods, the silence</p><p> </p><p>so I continue up the path </p><p>and into air </p><p>in this way, events are twined together </p><p>and when they slow and stop</p><p>in ways that look like this </p><p>I remind myself - don't forget to look around</p><p>because if you don' everything could collapse all around you</p><p><br /></p><p>)</p><div><br /></div>rivercathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266676584816215256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942048085556133313.post-4212899475837248962024-01-07T07:59:00.018-05:002024-01-07T08:49:32.905-05:00birds eye<p><br /></p><p>secret tides pull us back</p><p>as currents open the night sky </p><p>overlapping words</p><p>and borderlines</p><p>all fading</p><p>like a wind clearing </p><p>the path in front of us</p><p> </p><p>Day 64:</p><p>people are speaking in an unclear manner</p><p>hopeful but not overly emotionally </p><p><br /></p><p>Day 63:</p><p>I've distorted the reality of the present </p><p>by transforming it into an obsession</p><p>especially in relatively benign situations</p><p><br /></p><p> #</p>rivercathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266676584816215256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942048085556133313.post-67815095973979957922023-12-24T10:06:00.002-05:002023-12-24T10:06:14.800-05:00The black plant <p> </p><p>feathery fog carried the stillness</p><p>into eyes too small to absorb the light</p><p>like something lost</p><p>My senses slip </p><p>unable to stretch the length of a finger</p><p>But I'll speak no more of this virtuos victim</p><p>the feeling -The vivid sketch enchanting of a world slanting </p><p><br /></p><p>I see dancing behind the high ceiling </p><p>magnified exhalated </p><p> goings on</p><p><br /></p><p> When I wake to take a step </p><p>I'm pulled back down into surroundings</p><p>born in cloud and</p><p>shadow</p><p> the pillow noticeably perfumed and fragrant </p><p> I know everything now...and I understand </p><p> My love for you is my one special thing</p><p><br /></p><p>.(</p>rivercathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266676584816215256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942048085556133313.post-2207882125139104742023-09-12T10:39:00.007-04:002023-09-12T10:46:41.072-04:00The Poem I Forgot<p> Thus isn't the poem bing ( AI) wrote </p><p>and I forgot. I saved it to the clip board</p><p>but erased it when i saved something else</p><p>f </p><p>It was in praise of cars from the late 60's and early </p><p>70s It was a very nice poem but i erased it forever by mistake.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>.x. </p>rivercathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266676584816215256noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942048085556133313.post-11314298651247652952023-08-21T04:18:00.007-04:002023-08-21T04:18:24.653-04:00Kindness by Bing AI<p> </p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7); color: #111111; font-family: -apple-system, Roboto, SegoeUI, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Microsoft YaHei", "Meiryo UI", Meiryo, "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Kindness is the light that brightens the day </span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7); color: #111111; font-family: -apple-system, Roboto, SegoeUI, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Microsoft YaHei", "Meiryo UI", Meiryo, "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Kindness is the warmth that melts the cold away </span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7); color: #111111; font-family: -apple-system, Roboto, SegoeUI, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Microsoft YaHei", "Meiryo UI", Meiryo, "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Kindness is the smile that lifts the mood </span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7); color: #111111; font-family: -apple-system, Roboto, SegoeUI, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Microsoft YaHei", "Meiryo UI", Meiryo, "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Kindness is the gesture that shows gratitude Kindness is the word that heals the wound </span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7); color: #111111; font-family: -apple-system, Roboto, SegoeUI, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Microsoft YaHei", "Meiryo UI", Meiryo, "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Kindness is the song that fills the sound </span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7); color: #111111; font-family: -apple-system, Roboto, SegoeUI, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Microsoft YaHei", "Meiryo UI", Meiryo, "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Kindness is the gift that needs no return </span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7); color: #111111; font-family: -apple-system, Roboto, SegoeUI, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Microsoft YaHei", "Meiryo UI", Meiryo, "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Kindness is the lesson that we all must learn</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7); color: #111111; font-family: -apple-system, Roboto, SegoeUI, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Microsoft YaHei", "Meiryo UI", Meiryo, "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7); color: #111111; font-family: -apple-system, Roboto, SegoeUI, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Microsoft YaHei", "Meiryo UI", Meiryo, "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">.</span></p>rivercathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266676584816215256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942048085556133313.post-71774921821631131902023-08-06T06:22:00.004-04:002023-08-06T06:22:51.411-04:00The Purple Moon by "Bing" ( AI )<p> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7); color: #111111; font-family: -apple-system, Roboto, SegoeUI, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Microsoft YaHei", "Meiryo UI", Meiryo, "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Title: The Purple Moon</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7); color: #111111; font-family: -apple-system, Roboto, SegoeUI, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Microsoft YaHei", "Meiryo UI", Meiryo, "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variation-settings: var(--cib-type-body2-font-variation-settings); line-height: var(--cib-type-body2-line-height); margin: 12px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; word-break: break-word;">I see the purple moon In the starry night It beckons me to come And explore its light</p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7); color: #111111; font-family: -apple-system, Roboto, SegoeUI, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Microsoft YaHei", "Meiryo UI", Meiryo, "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variation-settings: var(--cib-type-body2-font-variation-settings); line-height: var(--cib-type-body2-line-height); margin: 12px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; word-break: break-word;">I board a rocket ship And blast off from Earth I feel a thrill of joy And a sense of worth</p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7); color: #111111; font-family: -apple-system, Roboto, SegoeUI, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Microsoft YaHei", "Meiryo UI", Meiryo, "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variation-settings: var(--cib-type-body2-font-variation-settings); line-height: var(--cib-type-body2-line-height); margin: 12px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; word-break: break-word;">I reach the purple moon And land on its soil I marvel at its beauty And admire its toil</p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7); color: #111111; font-family: -apple-system, Roboto, SegoeUI, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Microsoft YaHei", "Meiryo UI", Meiryo, "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variation-settings: var(--cib-type-body2-font-variation-settings); line-height: var(--cib-type-body2-line-height); margin: 12px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; word-break: break-word;">It tells me its secrets Of cosmic wonders Of ancient mysteries And hidden blunders</p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7); color: #111111; font-family: -apple-system, Roboto, SegoeUI, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Microsoft YaHei", "Meiryo UI", Meiryo, "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variation-settings: var(--cib-type-body2-font-variation-settings); line-height: var(--cib-type-body2-line-height); margin: 12px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; word-break: break-word;">I thank the purple moon For its gracious gift I bid it farewell And prepare to lift</p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7); color: #111111; font-family: -apple-system, Roboto, SegoeUI, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Microsoft YaHei", "Meiryo UI", Meiryo, "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variation-settings: var(--cib-type-body2-font-variation-settings); line-height: var(--cib-type-body2-line-height); margin: 12px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; word-break: break-word;">I return to Earth With a new insight I cherish the purple moon In the starry night </p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7); color: #111111; font-family: -apple-system, Roboto, SegoeUI, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Microsoft YaHei", "Meiryo UI", Meiryo, "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variation-settings: var(--cib-type-body2-font-variation-settings); line-height: var(--cib-type-body2-line-height); margin: 12px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7); color: #111111; font-family: -apple-system, Roboto, SegoeUI, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Microsoft YaHei", "Meiryo UI", Meiryo, "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variation-settings: var(--cib-type-body2-font-variation-settings); line-height: var(--cib-type-body2-line-height); margin: 12px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; word-break: break-word;">." </p>rivercathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266676584816215256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942048085556133313.post-83687387679695278942023-07-14T15:12:00.003-04:002023-07-14T15:13:04.122-04:00X aka swamply<p> </p><p>In the desert he saw</p><p>the purple moon</p><p>in the dotted sky</p><p>and they carried away </p><p>his secrets</p><p> nature's spiritual pursuits </p><p> things having an influence on my mind </p><p>nonhuman beings </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>x</p>rivercathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266676584816215256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942048085556133313.post-8111774449356956852023-02-26T07:33:00.006-05:002023-03-03T17:14:42.780-05:00 fate twisted hearts <p><br /></p><p>nights stand</p><p>holding hands a swinging chain</p><p><br /></p><p>back and forth </p><p>repetitions of sincerity</p><p>and the unforgettable </p><p>rhyme </p><p>racing into dream creamy showers </p><p>of hearts run-through</p><p>performing the scenes </p><p>of a romantic play</p><p>with the audience ever held</p><p>at the point of tears</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgOdLbP8DfIU4yjB-nKOXpKqvGtQfgauGHNi2BmrfD1hEQdP_IMVMBcRQX893jOLT3JLP3kPgmUDSRxxiowDAm9Tu4ogtv8rZPw8H1ElKEpz2PX1zUJsq5c6ZJ4eaNyhJB2UD3ko9ICuS7JW3lUgsUelVRPPGcGbaquCPSU-aD6zNxxZFqMzK5wT0Ot" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="388" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgOdLbP8DfIU4yjB-nKOXpKqvGtQfgauGHNi2BmrfD1hEQdP_IMVMBcRQX893jOLT3JLP3kPgmUDSRxxiowDAm9Tu4ogtv8rZPw8H1ElKEpz2PX1zUJsq5c6ZJ4eaNyhJB2UD3ko9ICuS7JW3lUgsUelVRPPGcGbaquCPSU-aD6zNxxZFqMzK5wT0Ot" width="174" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p>$.. </p>rivercathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266676584816215256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942048085556133313.post-77378228948991175072023-02-11T12:54:00.006-05:002023-02-11T12:54:51.258-05:00 night waves <p><br /></p><p>drenched by a silence</p><p>replacing words</p><p> I swallow time as</p><p>my spirit glides into a mirage-</p><p><br /></p><p>posting into the blank multiverse </p><p>to clear the uneveness </p><p><br /></p><p>tell the world if your heart has</p><p>a lot to say</p><p>even if it's just tumbling feathers </p><p>into the dryer.</p><p><br /></p><p>*(2i*)</p>rivercathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266676584816215256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942048085556133313.post-46291229947542241272023-02-09T14:54:00.000-05:002023-02-09T14:54:06.755-05:00 Every morning<p><br /></p><p>caress escape </p><p>wave wave movement infinite upward</p><p>planned simple</p><p>and end and and , in that case, and</p><p>after a lot of reflection</p><p>didn't really matter </p><p>and I swear I'm happy</p><p><br /></p><p>.</p><div><br /></div>rivercathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266676584816215256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942048085556133313.post-91882040649385184702023-01-01T10:12:00.000-05:002023-01-01T10:12:06.260-05:00an unexpected calm<p> pools of eloquence dissolved into dry reflected smiles </p><p>I'd shout but then maybe someone would stare</p><p>as I walk past empty tables </p><p>marble scattered on the walls</p><p>hid by life and temperature </p><p>pleeding an outer universe We light candles </p><p> Her eyes are stars of twilight </p><p> -Like all beginnings </p><p>when color changes contrast emerges </p><p>into a unique landscape </p><p>None can dim a healthy world entirely</p><p><br /></p><p> though mesmerized </p><p>I still listen to our most sincere moments; to our darkness </p><p>but just for a moment...</p><p>before or just after the whirlpools </p><p>draw me too deep within</p><p>Untitled smiles cost nothing but well done ones leave a feeling of guilt.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>.4</p>rivercathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266676584816215256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942048085556133313.post-34571842898480300082022-12-29T09:43:00.001-05:002022-12-29T09:43:04.647-05:00 Resting as I do<p> </p><p>in a soft windless steady rain</p><p>There is still the first rule </p><p>The world reinvents itself </p><p>in a continuous pulse</p><p>without first step</p><p>or torch with blazing light </p><p>in song</p><p>from the universal note</p><div><br /></div>rivercathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266676584816215256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942048085556133313.post-46721091898568017882021-12-17T13:06:00.003-05:002022-01-04T17:07:31.597-05:00Night's sensation<p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>a human body of liquid time</p><p>controlled by the Earth </p><p>beside me in electrical charges held in blood acid</p><p>beaming warmth light moving my lips eyes like tides</p><p>A thousand emotions into a version of the past I forgot existed.</p><p><br /></p><p>*</p>rivercathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266676584816215256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942048085556133313.post-82794137138029228402021-11-14T09:37:00.002-05:002021-11-14T09:37:20.241-05:00 what I return to you <p><br /></p><p>While we move the stars in some way I'll never understand</p><p>vibrating and swinging in an arc across the sky </p><p>long fingers retracing love’s wondrous persistence.</p><p>God's putting space again in my eyes </p><p>Moving honestly </p><p>Believe in the universe closest to you</p><p>and that I don't name names,,,</p><p><br /></p><p>Use your radar to circumnavigate the back screen </p><p>the radiologist, books, and the aerial mixing of words with pauses </p><p><br /></p><p>In trying to view thing this way</p><p>You may find spirals too within soft tissue</p><p>and words with eyes breathing cold echoes into your heart</p><p>what I didn't come to say</p><p><br /></p><p>The voice that slows and catches paused dreams </p><p>looking back just saying simply what to do </p><p>pinpointing curiosities</p><p> not in weakness or fear, but in confidence </p><p>with comfort and calm</p><p>I'm going to Believe </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>4/3</p>rivercathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266676584816215256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942048085556133313.post-53179397629531429342021-07-02T14:32:00.004-04:002021-07-21T16:50:48.434-04:00no fusilli abrupt pronouncement<p> </p><p><br /></p><p>that the faintest breath </p><p>contains the deliverance from our tears</p><p><br /></p><p>closets</p><p>escapes </p><p>conclusions</p><p>all initiative and memory</p><p>all as well </p><ul class="mw-list" style="background-color: white; 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border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 1px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">laggardly</a>, </li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leisurely" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; background-image: linear-gradient(90deg, rgb(38, 86, 103) 100%, transparent 0px); background-position: 0px 1.15em; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 3px 1px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 1px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">leisurely</a> </li></span><span style="background-color: transparent;">casually </span></ul><p>slowly withered the day into night </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> '^</p>rivercathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266676584816215256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942048085556133313.post-86202526659589398362021-05-25T09:01:00.000-04:002021-05-25T09:01:12.533-04:00 As storms prepare <p><br /></p><p>they will see that</p><p>life inside you now </p><p>here and forever </p><p>other things happening </p><p>not by work alone </p><p> </p><p>The thunder prepares its part in the storm</p><p>from behind glass in silence</p><p>and under rocks</p><p>now forced to fly </p><p>the uncensored spine</p><p>unwinds its tree branches </p><p>shattering the antique china</p><p><br /></p><p>.</p>rivercathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266676584816215256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942048085556133313.post-90585048045242566332021-04-17T07:17:00.000-04:002021-04-17T07:17:00.330-04:00a source of hunger <p><br /></p><p>waiting to not belong</p><p>not all wrong</p><p><br /></p><p>to be turned with dust </p><p>into sunflowers on these</p><p>red hills </p><p><br /></p><p>climbing high on the trees </p><p>being with leaves missing edges</p><p>lost forever.</p><p><br /></p><p>running through the </p><p>chasms of a songbird's</p><p>digestive system</p><p>dancing to the changing score and </p><p>movement</p><p>.</p>rivercathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266676584816215256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942048085556133313.post-78381835034283830442021-03-15T06:13:00.002-04:002021-03-15T06:13:19.219-04:00 Grandma's Stolen (Monkey Bread) <p> </p><p>Every now and then she baked</p><p>And we'd all come in saying nothing that mattered. </p><p>waiting for that soft lump to grow</p><p>as big as the room it was in</p><p> I remember us all standing on the chairs by the lamp </p><p>and her telling us to get down</p><p>before she finished one of her stories.</p><p>(..and if I ever see her again )</p><p>She always ended with "and that's the way it was."</p><p> and the room was always warm and friendly.</p><p>^</p>rivercathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13266676584816215256noreply@blogger.com0