The Whale Shark
She discovered his animal demon after marriage. A shadow in their ocean cave, an obscure figure pumping bubbles out his gills. The beast drew up powers from the deep, where cobalt blue went true black.  Her own demons came forth unannounced, after the hookup. His' waited beneath for years, not needing oxygen to survive. When a baby, happiness was his native standard, but stale adults scolded from exhausted scripts anyway. He wondered at the beauty of the world, its immensity....

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Treading
Lately roots awaken from slumber Memories dispersed, Whispers past Silent picture of her in a blue dress Running the fields like a promise. In autumn leaves lives matter Of this present consistency of body, And in the spring it still floats in seedlings, like her spirit. Along the old park quiet rocks lay Remembering her fields, Special loves I did not live And yet we correspond, As does love when it reaches far, Giving no reason for lengths of time....

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Greener Meadows
She needed proof from the outside, it wasn’t enough that her limbs ground and trembled from imposed rigor, her cramming in the exercise. “No more gorging, giving into cravings, no more nonsense,” ordered the familiar voice. It sounded so reasonable in her mind, that she could stop that silliness immediately. She had forgotten, again, the wide stare of the prejudiced mirror in the parlor, that very morning, while absorbed in the tasks ahead. As a nonbeliever in the vague, muted...

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