Morgan Michaels Poems

Conveniently, he inserted his number into the message with an invitation to call, so I didn't need to go online.

Next day I phoned. After some exploratory remarks and a mom update
we agreed to meet for dinner. I think we were both groping a bit and felt reassured. Everyone dreads the worst these days- from people and situations. They do nothing without thinking 'what if...'
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There were two of them. She did the talking. He had the same thing, she said, as her.Because of what she'd had and what he now had, she's had a hip replacement. It ran in the family. Her cousin had it, too. This was her brother and she was taking care of him- making sure things went alright.

Donnie peered at the downcast young man slumped in the chair across the desk.
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Out of the mists, day dawning- -
forms- turning slowly into women, nine of them.
'We know how to tell lies that seem true',
they sang, in chorus, to Hesiod,
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'Catholicism', sniffed Langley, 'is a hard act to follow'.

They waited on the portico, letting their eyes adjust to the brightness.
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- besides, he looked quite handsome. But, he was mortified when, sitting down opposite his host's daughter, he discovered his oversight. The astute young woman was thrilled.

'I'm so sorry', he exclaimed. 'I've forgotten my jacket'!
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Birdsong. From no one singer but many.
From under the curtain's hem
singers of unknown hue
because unseen,
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Back, forth, up, down
teeter in my heart
caution and reckless Abandon.
Which is better, I don't know
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Me: 'How can I get calls on my new watch?
I'm desperate- I kid you not! '

Siri:Dear Desperate
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Lord, it's time. Summer was enormous.
Lay your shadow on the sundial, now
and send a chilly wind over the down.
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