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Fran Tilly’s Apple Cake

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She’s a woman
who learns to hold-carry
and balance-give
and take-in love.
A woman who treasures,
who looks to the limits in the sky
and notices the pennies in her path.
And realizing she might just
not know
she learns to sort through
first hand love for second-hand pieces
feeling for heaviness.
At least this pile’s
nicer than the one
She found it in-
a minute, an hour
more than 5 days ago-
when she [...]

where to find the words now
no idea where how
heart’s broken and
just tryin to breathe.
I see a happy hug
a teasing love
a simple sailboat
heading out to sea
the ebb and flow
come and go
and hope’s the sail to see
my lucky love
our wave’s above
the sun, the sky, the sea.
in gentle waves
can jagged caves
be explored and seen.
so tell the mist
tell the [...]

If all words surrounding this issue weren’t clumsy and cliche

If talking weren’t like a strange game,

Like trying to balance

Seashells in a box filled with sand

Without friction or grit

And if all requests were being granted

I’d ask

For all words surrounding this issue

To cradle me like the happy swing of a rocking chair

For a moment if just that.

And if nature [...]

Maria

Last night I went to bed and dreamt of you.
You weren’t my younger sister in my dream
And she was not your mother, only mine.
You held an empty box. Its space was like
The pit in my stomach. Like when we fight:
Two girls, an empty box, and no ribbon
To hold the scene together. Our words were
Heavy [...]