Morgan Michaels Poems

I have weird moments
when I can see things
I forgot were mine
with independent eyes
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The pleasures of travel are great
but those of homecoming greater still-
if with a small, affordable cache of loot
that, carefully unwrapped & set down
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Take, for example, this bit of tile from Toledo-
(not Ohio, silly, the original)
perfectly square, painted with laurels and glazed,
it, the side-line craft of the busy scion
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It would be nice to know, said Donnie, a little miffed. She was certainly vague enough. What exactly was it- the family problem?

She didn't really know but admitted a second cousin had it, - the hip. And now, her poor brother. Months. The pain was awesome.
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Things showed her hepatitis-naive. The vaccine was good, he explained, for people who were 'out there'. Not her, necessarily, he added, quickly.

He gulped and went on.
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