Lovelorn Poet in St. Augustine, FL: 5 Minutes Earlier

December 28, 2012 by Leave a Comment

5 Minutes Earlier
Missed Connections from St. Augustine

Five minutes earlier and you would have seen me riding
(yes, riding)
the shopping cart like a kid does –
coasting along in the misty rain.
Way too old for it, I know,
but it was fun.
I found a picture of us today.
New Year’s Eve 2010.
Your smile was huge.

The thing is,
my intuition had already told me we would meet tonight.
If you had been 5 minutes earlier.

 

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How many times have you wondered what life would be like had an event occurred just a few moments earlier or later than it did? Short of viewing the film in the parallel universe :-) we have no idea if a slight shift in time would make any difference to the outcome. Situations unfold in their time, with or without our machinations. Are we really in control or is that an illusion too?

 

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Missed Connections in St. Augustine, FL: Into Your Palm, A Sea

February 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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It's too early for the beach by Carl Jones

 

Into Your Palm, A Sea { }
Missed Connections in St. Augustine

into your palm, a sea {s h e l l}
tied up in a bow born of curiosity at your smile

after the gift I ran fast away, needing to warn the stars,
wondering then & still at the happenstance of strangers & music & saturday nights, that particular fever.

…
‘A woman who writes feels too much,
those trances and portents!
As if cycles and children and islands
weren’t enough; as if mourners and gossips
and vegetables were never enough.
She thinks she can warn the stars.
A writer is essentially a spy.
Dear love, I am that girl.’

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St. Augustine is our missed connections featured location today. The feed is slow and sleepy (it’s taken almost a full year to find three messages worth sharing!) and  not unlike a lazy day at the beach. This particular post caught my eye not only for the ocean reference but for the inclusion (albeit without credit) of part of Anne Sexton poem’s, The Black Art. The thoughtful photograph by Carl Jones completes the message on many different levels.


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Lovelorn Poet in St. Augustine, FL: I Remain Steadfast

February 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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I Remain Steadfast

I Remain Steadfast
Missed Connections in St. Augustine

…in my resolve to deny you any entry.
Even the most casual wave is to be (easily) ignored/rebuffed.
An innocent beckoning?
No. I know it now as a trick, a lure.
Down a path I’ve trod before
And have no desire to tread again.

I am wiser now. Sadder, and wiser. You taught me to be both.
In fact, unbeknownst to you at the time, your castle key had (just a few moments before) been returned.

So know this for certain, in all your damnable uncertainty:
I remain steadfast;
both in turning away from thoughts of the past and of you…
and in opening my heart and my soul to face my brightening future.

Don’t bother responding. I won’t read it. I Remain Steadfast.

 

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In our missed connections poem of the day, it appears our St. Augustine poet has donned armor to protect themselves from the the poisonous touch of the one who has done them wrong. Some people just have a way of weakening defenses and sneaking their way back into good graces so better to lock the doors and batten the hatches when you know they’ll be blowin’ through town!


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Missed Connections in St. Augustine, FL: Betty Griffin Thrift Store

February 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Betty Griffin Thrift Store Missed Connections in St. Augustine Betty Griffin Thrift Store. Tuesday, early afternoon. I have to know. Why were you following me? You were dressed in blue. You have long black hair. You came to the trinkets section where I was alone. I left and went to toys. You followed me there. [...]

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