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Three Moments in Life

Robin Gallaher Branch

Published: 20 Mar. 2016

Copyright: © 2016. The Author(s). Licensee: AOSIS.
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A Meditation on Mean

An executive decision cutting my work and pay

Means

I scramble to survive

Meaning

I eat less, delay servicing the car, and cancel the dry cleaning

Sure, I know I’m merely a budgeted item

Meaningless

To management and viewed as no longer

Meaningful

But the faceless “It’s nothing personal” feels just plain

Mean

Butterfly Graces

A butterfly graced

The craft compound at church camp

Lightly blessing beads

Calico patches

And the colored boondoggle

Dangling from a post

It tickled bare backs

Explored drying objets d’art

While dancing over glue

Ode to Selfie Mosquito

Selfie Mosquito--

Tiptoeing on a mirror

Tap dancing true love

Beguiled by me-ness

Thoroughly narcissistic

Smitten by image--

Smugly preens in glee,

Smashingly unaware of

Quickly coming death