Decisions, Decisions.....

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Photo/Poem © 2013 Rick Burnett Baker 

Shedding Light On the Matter?

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Photo/Poem © 2013 Rick Burnett Baker 
Photo taken by R. Baker, June 12, 2013 in Shepherd, Texas.

Relics

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relic 



collected covered buried 
in boxes footprints on a beach

twig-sctratched arms
reaching for the shiny rock
where a mountain grows

we've heard the waves
and hollow rush of time
placing it absent-minded
in a pot for posterity

memories shelter quietly
buried and secret in
the art and decoration
of all our past lives:

tiny flowers bloom
with deference
never forgetting.


Poem © 2013 Rick Burnett Baker 
Photo © 2013 Rick Burnett Baker

These Incarnations

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(re)incarnation 

my previous bones are in this grave 

windowed pasts, ancestors foretold,

a mason's chisel the memory prod, 

stone-washed, centuries old; 

my previous bones are in this space 

between ancient and new, soil and tree,

before the birth of imagination, 

duly buried, forever free; 

my previous bones are visitors' dreams 

of disconnect and puzzled speech, 

a tethered witness grasps my arm 

to guide me from this desert beach; 

my previous bones are in this grave 

of knowledge, wisdom, pleasure, rage. 

Poem © 2013 Rick Burnett Baker 

Photo © 2013 Rick Burnett Baker 

Magpie Tales 172: Between Friends

chastity belt friendship

between us reason 

is proprietary unhinged 

unthinkable

skeleton key cryptic 

is the story you spin: 

I smile at the 

pretty facade.

Poem © 2013 Rick Burnett Baker 

Photo:   "Charleston Farmhouse Door"  shared by Tess Kincaid

Duplicity/Perspectives

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City Scenes L: Keep Calm? Reminders On The Street

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