"Friends" is a word
as gentle as lovers holding hands,
as welcome as a gift on Christmas,
as inviting as flames in the fireplace ...
you warm my heart.

I'm glad you're mine.
So, in this Season of peace and love,
I reach out in gratitude and pray that
you have a wonderous Christmas and
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Image (c) 2006, Karla Dorman
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HISSISITY

... The sky puffed out in a hissy fit
of monumental ... h i s s i s i t y.
It chased its tail from one horizon
to the other and back again, bared
its teeth in wind and rain ... n… Continue

Image (c) Karla Dorman

IT DOES SOMETHING TO YOU

Living through disaster
bumps the impossible
a little bit closer.
It does something to you;
brings the alligator
so near it embraces
you in claustrophobic
teeth that won't. Let. Go, the
next time a storm comes near.
Fear

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Image, (c) 2007, Karla Dorman.

TEXAS, MY TEXAS

They say everything's bigger in
Texas. Believe it: when the skies
stretch out forever; when lightning

does a do-si-do and a loop
from one horizon to t

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Image, (c) Karla Dorman

POEM: STORMPHOBIC

jagged lightning splits
angry, bruised-black skies
the clouds shattered by
shockwaves of thunder -
sound -- very intense

the warning sirens
wail - the sound chills my
blood -- fear grips my heart
CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT
I'M S

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