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On my 60th birthday, my perceptive, imaginative friend, Liz Palladino, gave me a box that looked just like a book. You open the cover and it’s filled with writing prompts. Best gift ever. It’s inspired me to create a new Medium series called Writings from Liz’s BookBox. Gonna try and hit it every week till I get through the whole thing.
The Upward Pull Into Darkness
Since leaving social media
I have a private relationship
with the world. We’re closer.
And, just like a little child smiles differently
in front of a camera than
up at you from their bed as they awake,
the moon pulled me differently last night.
I felt it in the center of my chest…
so much, I had to step into my boots
barefoot, and clomp out into the 20º night
just to be with her, direct.
And because I went by myself
without a camera, without my phone,
she gave me a secret
that not even I can know.
