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excerpt from 'Walking On Butterfly Wings'
... the novel I am writing with NaNoWriMo this year. (almost at the 40,500 mark)
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Kate Hawkes
FINDING THANKSGIVING
Newly arrived in the USA Embedded in my new Texan family The accents, a BBQ place with a bear at the entrance, A family of large hearts - And…
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REFLECTIONS
She vanished, just disappeared. I thought she was inside the café but maybe she was outside. One minute she was reading the paper beside me and the next…
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FAREWELL
The email arrived - Subject: Please Call Me From a name That barely rippled the surface of Recollection. Inside 3 lines - One a phone number Then a…
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October 2023
Love Lasts
Dripping out of cracks of broken grains of water of dreams of Love Drilled through with holes with splinters with hope with Love Caught in knots in…
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Kate Hawkes
Surrealism By Accident With Max
(written in 2015, when a new play 'found' me.)
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THE KITE
He arrived like a hand-hewn paper-mache kite Unexpectedly released into my skies Flying high, swooping close To my upturned face. I didn't recognize him…
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ARRIVING
There was a wild woman in the garden - Birds on her head Neck-deep in dreams Knee-deep in mud. Laughing the winds down to whispers Her body shook the…
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September 2023
August 2023
BRIDGES AND TISSUES
I killed a spider today. It didn’t feel good. Imagine how it felt for the spider… I tried to take it outside To lead it from its ceiling-wall corner But…
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I Rode For You Today ...
to a fellow rider in the other hemisphere
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