Crepuscular Creatures

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Call me

a crepuscular creature

I exist

in the in-between

Not light

not dark

Not day

not night

I inhabit the fringes

the edges

My time

is the time of change

the time of uncertainty

I hover 

along the borders

of this and that

I am at home

in the almost

and the not-quite

I belong to everyone

and to no one.

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Weekend Mini Challenge: Poetry Time

Time

watercolor by Micael Chadwick

Time melts like

Watercolors in a painting

Easing into itself, indistinct

Numinous memories drift

Tides toward the shore

You and I

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Out of Standard With Izy, Climate Free Friday
and for David's and my 20 year anniversary on April 25

Lament to Chronos

"Turning To Spring" Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison

They say time heals

but these days

they creep by so slowly

and the nights

the nights are torturous

I am a tourist

in my own life

a visitor

in the museum of my mind

I'm bleeding

I'm dying

and the minutes tick by

Time doesn't care.

submitted for The Mag, Mag 109

Chronos

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Thief!
Your evil trickery
Has been uncovered
Wicked wizard!
Sordid sorcerer!
You have danced your last
Bait and switch tango
With this girl
When did you steal my unlined face
And replace it
     with old parchment?
When did you take my ivory legs
And substitute a map
     of rivers and streams?
Serpentine deity
With your consort of destiny
I refuse to worship at your alter
You alter that which is not yours
You take the green from spring
The nectar from flowers
The flush from cheeks
And leave brittle winter memories

submitted for May Poetry Challenge, Stealing, at Verse in a Nutshell