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all (my) works on medium, arranged alphabetically

edh lamport

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edh lamport: index

5 min readApr 13, 2019

10 Things You (Probably) Don’t Know About Me

Oh Look! A Listicle! Love that!

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…is louder than airhorns and speaks dolphin, fluently, constantly, squeals rising and falling like waves on the ocean…

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A, a

alive

stirring the filaments and tendrils beneath frozen soil, you kindle this spark that glimmers and burns and spreads…

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all the words in the world

can

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anon alois

These subtle roads of sleep and wake I wander, endlessly between — trapped, anchored by sticky, silken threads — past…

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Australia

a haiku

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Awakenings

Five haiku, starring The Woolly Gentleman

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B, b

beacon

a haiku

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Because You Asked Me

Someone, somewhere, looking down at the small

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broken

a haiku

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C, c

Castle

Open-topped towers crawl with spiraling staircases and narrow, twisting turns, reaching upward with long, stark walls…

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cost, unspoken

lost petals gather in bruised, motionless drifts, tumbled against sandalwood screens, collected heat dissipated…

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The Crawlspace

There is a spider the size of my head in the crawlspace beneath the living room, and there is no one besides me to…

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D, d

dewpoint

a haiku

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Distance

uncalculated,

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Do Not Let Go

Once a cookie-stealing imp with hesitant smile and sad eyes, ears bigger than his head,

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Dragon and Butterfly

In the distant hills, where the shadows grow long and cold, and the grasses thin and pale, there is a spit of rock…

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drown

one day i shall gaze beyond the breaking shore and remember your words, and my humility will force me to swim until…

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E, e

echo #3

a haiku

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enemy

a haiku

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F, f

fade

a haiku

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Fingers v Toes

a haiku

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Flowers

In the crystal vase, forgotten on the corner table, leaves curl and dry. Delicate heads droop, nodding, and darken…

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flutter

a haiku

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from

a haiku

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From the Puddle of Liquid Sun, Gathered on Asphalt in the Back Yard

this: your golden haze. deep kindling slow kilns my bones, marrow to magma.

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G, g

The Golden Chain

“It would be like not breathing, you see,” Chloe intoned drily from the drapes by the window. “I’ve spent a great deal…

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The Good List

Dear Santa,

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Grandma

Her English is Italian peppered with Americanized onions:

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H, h

Happy Birthday

“I should like a cake this year, I think.”

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I, i

i am a shepherd

and these are my sheep, playing, prancing ‘cross this white meadow reaching their bony faces into warm and sunny…

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i am feeling silent today

the shouting is done, you

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i want

your

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Impulse

He lay in the bed, drifting, half-asleep, not ready to reach out yet, the sheen of sweat still slick on his skin. He…

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Indigo Moon

She gathers the star-speckled indigo folds of her sparkling night quilt and pulls them slowly up. Surrounding herself…

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Innocence Lost

A Gogyohka

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J, j

journey

soft light falls peppering cheeks with tiny flashes of cold and damp, swirling in the gusty kiss of air layered thick…

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K, k

L, l

Letters From the Woolly Gentleman

January 2018

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Lightning

She does not know where it begins with this man, the sound of him speaking always touching her ears, her mind, brushing…

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Lost

Fingers fumbling in the darkness, she strikes the match against the cardboard book, singeing her thumbnail and getting…

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M, m

Marigolds

a haiku

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mermaid

down in the blue deep shadows flit, sweeping across the shifting floor as the dark kelp sways touching sand and sea and…

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Midnight Sails

We climb aboard the great wooden ships

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Missing

your presence in this world, you who

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The Monday Ogre

He sucks the meat from our bones, and enters our homes, a cacophonous drudging, unwinding;

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Montauk

Soft and damp, the emptiness stretches, silent, glistening with gold that slips brightly between the darkening grey and…

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N, n

newsflash

a haiku

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O, o

Ode to a Pug in a Blanket

a haiku set

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On the Morning of my Passing

On the morning of my passing, they lifted me from my slumberous bed and laid me down upon the scarred surface once…

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Oyster

the knack of

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P, p

Pillar

Here is the park where my daughters played, the stand where they begged me for ices, decadent, cloying, sweet. Colorful…

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Pink

tangled in the green leaves,

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Pixies by Evening

The little moths, lipstick-pink and sunshine-yellow, gather on the screen beneath the soft golden glow of the porch…

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Poking the Bear

I am not a napper. I never have been. Even during my worst bouts of insomnia, where I average three hours of sleep a…

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a puddle of words…

Do any of these speak to you?

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Q, q

R, r

Remembrance

Each step into the old house is a soft drift into a haze of years, stirring and awakening the sameness, the difference.

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S, s

salt

a haiku

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saturday

a haiku

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scavengers

a haiku

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Signals

fingers brush

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The Significance of My Reply

it is such a small thing, you seem to think.

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Sleeping Green

Listen:

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snowfall

on winter’s body a fragility of bones draped in gossamer

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sommerfugl

Butterfly №1

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Sonora

for my daughter

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Spring

A haiku

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Starfall

It was her favorite blanket, usually given a place of honor along the back of the large, comfortable couch in the…

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submission

how the Milk Carton Haiku handed me my ass …

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summer waits

Down tick the dandelion clocks spinning these hours into buoyant, billowing threads trailing golden webs across this…

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T, t

tandem

sometimes i think it all began when we were young, some other lifetime ago, when i was someone’s daughter or sister and…

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tether

a haiku

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This bright glowing flower

This is my love for you: this bright, glowing flower with the dark colors and the glimmers of shining gold, plucked and…

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this old dog

a haiku

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Three Sisters

In a dim, dark hovel, a hissing cauldron bubbles over a smoky fire.

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Thursday, Revisited

There is a loud, blaring screech from the intercom system. It does not often get used for this very reason. There is a…

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The Trouble With Thursday

“There’s something wrong with Thursday,” Lissa whispered, “it isn’t creeping around in the usual manner.”

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U, u

The unfamiliar

wonder of

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unsung

perhaps you are a softness of moonlight, sparkling off the bitter frost of long, hollow years where you have not been…

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The Unravelling

Sometimes, you get really, really tired…

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V, v

Veils

A pomegranate tree delicately blooms; long elegant branches sway behind the serene embrace of sheltering stone walls…

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