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The Faces of Awe — Music (Shards)
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Paris 0530
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Walk in the Light
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I Ran Into My Old Girlfriend at Costco…
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Boundaries
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The Faces of Awe — Music (Secret Society)
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The Faces of Awe — Moral Authority
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The Faces of Awe – Nature
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A Child’s Christmas in Westwood
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Notes from the Battlefield
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Lost Our Way
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Velma Can’t Dance
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Waiting Room
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Caverns of Silence
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Wolf Heart
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Breaking the Silence
Breaking the SilenceAfter 45 minutesof deep silenceLen stood upin Quaker [...]
My Laughin’ Place
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The Half-Life of Troubadours
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La Bulle
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Tabula Rasa
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Instruction Manual
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Ireland
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Summer Rain
Living in a tacky tract house On the mean streets [...]
Bird (7 variations)
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Goin’ Down Slow
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Good Riddance
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Two Coyotes
Two coyotes near the house One taking a nap in [...]
Time (Marches On)
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18 Worries
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Trust Exercises
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Foggy, Foggy Dew
In days of old We damned the fogs Made summers [...]
The Dumpster Blues
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New Friend
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Circe on the Beach
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The Ballad of MaryLu
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Erosion
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Tough Love
It was hard Visiting her in jail. Prison clothes No [...]
Hieroglyph
6am Rain streaks our bedroom window The outside world is [...]
Special Handling
In the ministry of lost souls My assignment is Special [...]
No Depression in Heaven
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Kathy in the Hot Tub
As the morning fog glides over Coleman Valley Kathy initiates [...]
Love Limericks
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Subversive Verse
"Poets, come out of your closets, Open your windows, open [...]
Writing Craft
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