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San Diego

Posted on January 15, 2013 by gimble
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Shivering at the
airport. Colder than O’Hare.
Turn back, refund flight.

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Driving cross country

Posted on January 15, 2013 by gimble
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West Coast starting line
pavement our road map we head
east back to our roots.

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Friendship

Posted on January 9, 2013 by gimble
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Despite my darkest
moods you reach out, take my hand,
and lead me toward hope.

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Depression

Posted on January 9, 2013 by gimble
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Bright summer days no
friend to sadness. Solace lies
in winter’s dark chill.

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On cutting off long hair

Posted on January 9, 2013 by gimble
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Strands layered, length chopped,
I change, shed years, fears, regrets.
Why’d I wait so long?

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Sufficient

Posted on January 9, 2013 by gimble
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Some days it’s enough:
an absent child’s return, a
dog’s rapt love, a kiss.

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Nostalgia

Posted on January 9, 2013 by gimble
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She cried at the film’s
end, remembering how much
she’d once loved the book.

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Afterwards

Posted on January 9, 2013 by gimble
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We discuss the soul,
ponder death’s postlude, then choose
the happy ending.

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Upon reading the work of a great writer

Posted on January 9, 2013 by gimble
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Breathless, punched in the
gut seeing language evolve,
my own words falter.

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Mortality

Posted on January 7, 2013 by gimble
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That first brush with death
shook loose her confident grasp
of all she held dear.

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