Curious

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Mama always said curiosity killed the cat, but I ain't no cat, and even if I was, I think I might give up a life to have me a look on the other side of that door. Sign on the barn says it holds "Curiosites" in French, which makes it curiouser still. All the more so for being here, where nothing curious happens near every day.  Trying not to look in that barn is like Mama settin' a freshly baked birthday cake on the kitchen table and saying, "Now don't you stick your finger in that frosting to taste any before dessert." You just  know what's gonna happen. It's human nature. Now, maybe after having my hand slapped countless times with Mama's old wooden spoon for sneaking a taste of that frosting, I'd have figured that human nature ain't always trustworthy. Or particularly smart. And it is exactly that part of my nature that's leading me to try to peek into the locked barn and get inside for a look around...

submitted for Theme Thursday, Curious

Night (A Nonet)

Like a cloak over her bare shoulders
Black night descends about the day
Pulling, shrugging, settling in
Day sighs in gratitude
Heaviness ,comfort
are to be hers
Night will rule
She will
sleep

submitted for Poetic Bloomings, Prompt 18, There's A Moon Out Tonight

The Kiss

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Practicing with her reflection

in the bedroom mirror

What if the lips don't align or the

head tilt is incorrect?

She studies the angles, features, dimensions

Such easy nonchalance takes much rehearsal

A flip of chestnut hair

a carefree laugh

and then

hold the gaze just long enough to let him

know

She leans in with lips

slightly parted

slightly quivering

Crashes into reality and

herself

in the hard, cold glass.

submitted for Poetry Picnic #2, The Kiss, at Gooseberry Garden

I'm Honored

"I'd like to thank my 1st grade Language Arts teacher and Dr. Seuss and..."

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