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sunny, cloudy MaryJane Nordgren sunny, cloudy MaryJane Nordgren

local weather

partly sunny—somewhere

but it’s the party cloudy

that has shown up around here

for quite a while

only the kindness and laughter

of family and friends

has kept our sunshine

peeking from between gray clouds

                                   

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poem, vulnerability, fear MaryJane Nordgren poem, vulnerability, fear MaryJane Nordgren

unknowing

unknowing

 

how much we don’t know we don’t know

how frightening to get caught up

in situations that assume we understand

but we do not

blessed are those who have friends

or loved ones near to help us learn

what is needful

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Poems MaryJane Nordgren Poems MaryJane Nordgren

be‘witching’ insight

people and characters are more complex and fascinating than caricatures

be’witching’ insight

 seeing a witch doll

sprawled halfway up

a telephone pole

as though she’d lost

her way in the fog

and crashed her broom

i realized then

my favorite characters

sprawl the spectrum

of good and bad

noble and sneaky

gentle and nasty

just as my favorite

people do

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