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Static

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Written for Sunday Whirl Wordle.
Here are Brenda’s prompt words:

voicemails ~ high ~ exhale ~ wind ~ begin ~ unaware
scared ~ glows ~ ghost ~ storm ~ story ~ lotus

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I am unaware of the sky changing
until the wind finds the window
and begins an argument with the glass.

My phone is full of voicemails
I have not played back ….
a small ghost lives in there,
patient, unhurried, high
on the idea that I’ll listen someday.

Storms love to barge in unannounced.
I watch the trees as they exhale
their leaves like a held breath finally let go,
and I am scared, a little,
of what has yet to break

Still …. the lotus in the yard
glows through the rain,
unbothered,
already writing
its own story
about the weather.

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16 thoughts on “Static”

  4. Yeah, for the King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard … simply electrifying my friend … just like your poem … I found a number of good “Lotus” songs, R.E.M – Lotus, Seon – Lotus, and Radiohead – Lotus Flower …

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