before

before is based on Psalm 139; it might not be finished:

before

 

while in the womb

how can it be

that God knew me

before

 

my breath

my voice

my heart

God’s own

 

my move

my thought

I can’t

flee God

 

my touch

my eyes

my light

my God

 

knows me coming

knows me going

how can it be

that God knew me

before

 

© 13 December 2019

Cindy B. Stevens

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it's not funny

 

sometimes

it’s he who says

“I love you”, then I say,

“I love you more”

sometimes it’s me

 

 ~ ~ ~

 

then there was a morning on my way to work

my playlist hit on Jason Isbell’s, “If We Were Vampires”

I cried

 

 ~ ~ ~

 

it’s not funny anymore, our joke where he says

“I’m going first”

and I say “no, I am”

and we go back and forth

laughing

except now, it's

not funny

 

© 22 October 2021

Cindy B. Stevens

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Joppa

 

it’s not dark corridors I avoid

not that I pursue dark corridors

it’s that I eschew lit corridors

lit to blind a gurney

parked in an ER passage

a man curled in on himself

doesn’t hear my boots step past

when I leave Joppa

© 16 October 2021

Cindy B. Stevens

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touch

 

I want to touch

touch head

neck

shoulders

touch hands

 

I want to touch every part

feel my warmth

feel life from my touch

I want my touch to heal

© 11 October 2021

Cindy B. Stevens

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haiku Sunday morning

 

on some mornings, to

drink cold beer brings comfort, my

morning, last Sunday

 

© 5 October 2021

Cindy B. Stevens

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