My poem “Moonlight at Noon (Afterlife)” is live at Spare Parts Literary Magazine. Many thanks to poetry editor Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi and the Spare Parts team for taking this piece.
O at the Edges
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O at the Edges 
So good. You can get beauty from a sad pen and make it stick on the page. And on the one who reads it.
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Thanks, Rob. I’m feeling good today, which is all I can ask for. One day at a time, and all that.
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Congrats.
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Thanks, Andrew.
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You’re welcome.
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Your poem, sad, lovely, and poignant. Thank you for sharing.
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You are so kind, Deborah. Thank you.
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Congratulations on the publication of your poem, Bob. I was very moved by it.
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Thank you, Liz. That is all I could ask for!
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You’re welcome, Bob!
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One reason to write poems – to capture a current perception, experience for subsequent reflection. Lives are filled with near-deaths … prior ones in reflection help me get through current set-backs. Yours have been more significant than mine, and your current aliveness all the more amazing … I take your poems as “attitude lessons from a master”. THANK you for being so open.
& congrats on this poem being published.
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Thank you, Jazz. If my words have offered someone/anyone a smidgen of comfort, then I have been successful.
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Can’t Like something you don’t like, try to get a grip on a slippery page. No use asking why? But still I do. You have the words, you send them out so well. They find a home. My home (as many others I’m sure)
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I keep trying to write. Somedays the words flow. On others, well…
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Favorite line: “Why holds no meaning to victims of the inevitable.” Pretty universal. I’m glad you’re feeling better today. I also noticed that you’re sharing space with J.I. Kleinberg, another favorite poet.
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I’ll mostly just hitting like on a couple other excellent comments on this close and tightly observed poem tonight — and then pausing to think of you now for a short while tonight before sleep.
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Supporting you both from a distance, your friend ‘Rose’
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Thank you, P.S.
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