737

 

agilisi
her quiet eyes
in my mirror

 

 

“this above all: to thine own self be true”
(Hamlet)
 
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736

 

this wintry june
again the dog slips
the cat

 

 

“cry “havoc,” and let slip the dogs of war”
(Julius Caesar)
 
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733

 

summer break

even this cold june rain
is a promise

 

 

“I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it”
(As You Like It)

 
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732

 

summer solstice

one pm could be one am
with this same dark rain

 

 

“True is it that we have seen better days.”
(As You Like It)
 

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729

 

her child’s cupped hands

a seagull-sky screeches
in this river town

 

 

“So wise so young, they say, do never live long.”
(King Richard III)
 

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727

 

father’s day

all those sundays echo
in this empty house

 

 

“Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it; he died as one that had been studied
in his death to throw away the dearest thing he owed, as ‘t were a careless trifle.”
(Macbeth)
 

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726

 

rain-cooled morning

again and again the neighbor’s
snooze alarm

 

 

“We have heard the chimes at midnight.”
(King Henry IV, Part II)
 

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723

 

freedom
I make tea
for one

 

 

“How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes!”
(As You Like It)
 

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721

 

renaissance fair
she buys
a claddagh ring

 

 

 

“Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.”
(James Joyce)
 
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719

 

full thunder moon
I open
this whirring window

 

 

“This world to me is like a lasting storm,
Whirring me from my friends.”

(Pericles, Prince of Tyre)

 
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