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The Vessel

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For so long as I think I shall live.

Strawberry Daiquiris

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A hot summer night walks into a bar and orders a drink.

Reading Without an ISBN

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The goal is to perform along with Jason Lee Norman--who is touring with his book of very short stories called Americas--a selection from my own collection called Country Without a Name. The symmetry excites me.

Three Winter Sketches in Honor of the Vernal Equinox

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an almost perfectly symmetrical/ Cheshire grin of a moon tonight/ above the iced roof of the house

Dirty Deeds

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Mustard stings the corner of his lips. He swipes it away with a finger, and looks closer at the hot dog. The piece of meat is ripped open like a sliced finger stuck in a doughy bandage

Barnegat Bay

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I whispered, “I love you” and then, “Goodbye”

twitter quitter

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you can reach me at hashtag this!

Gilbert B Fumbleberry

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“You know, Miss Viv, I love looking at the sun when it’s almost gone. It kinda looks like an orange and apple squished together. Those are the colors. And the puffy clouds under it look like a bed. It’s going to sleep."

Laundromat Haiku

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Laundromat

Down The River

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The river was frigid. Branches, empty cans, and used condoms float past me.I lost my jacket when I became snagged on a tree branch. My shoes are gone. My skin is blue-grey, as are my lips and fingernails. I've been face-down in this river for two…

The New Main Stream

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An hour later, we're no closer to the tunnel. In our rental car, we're just two in a school of a thousand fish skimming the edge of the island. Go with the flow, we keep saying to each other. We're just going with the flow. …

Shards

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But you're everywhere, how can I move on? It's so easy for people to say, Get over it, the ‘it' being the smell of your skin, your smile, the taste of your lips, always sweet and salty, like a carnival treat. Remember that neon night when we knew it was over, how we…

Lingua Materna, Lingua Imperiale

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arrogant, sullen,/ supple and ambiguous,// English seems the ideal tongue

Against Poetry

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If you had a choice, be a poet or not, I’d suggest prose for the lines that you jot.

The last sunny day. LUST

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I remember.

But You Said

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A decade, at minimum, was how long their notes had transpired.Still, they all knew how it would end.

4:09 and American Music

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If you knew everything, you would not be able to sit on tropical balconies at 4:09 A.M., discovering a book and then the world for the first time If you were part of the spiritual set, and could astral travel far and wide, but neglected to open the door…

Edward Ogle the Seventh

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Airwave candy lyrical brandy brass band singer.

greta

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you knew the lightbent it in your favorleapt confidentlyacross heartscheeks and shouldersrouged chromaticincandescent pretendingperhaps the dark had no claimover your lonely clumsy soul© 2013 - Rene

Talking Balls and Strikes

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I don’t see the problem. In the country I come from, language is the best part of the game.

Out of the Woods

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No, your clever costume won’t protect you.

Experimental Poetry

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Sometimes the dirt just stays dirt

With Respect to a Fellow Poet

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We do not all love each other for the sake of our shared art, apparently.

The Cat Pulls No Sudden Punches

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and springs its ready-made claws into action and takes a soppy chance that things will probably go its feline way today. But you, my friend, must you always throw the testing switch to high voltage on me? Yeah I get that the history teachers…

The Anchorman

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Welcome back to our ongoing coverage of what we mean when we say "Tsunami: A Very Bad Thing."

JUST BECAUSE

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It's been almost two years since I bought it.

Go Running Up That Hill

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Better move ‘cause I hear them comin’ up the other side.

Precipitants

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we’ll never win/ the ongoing battle with dirt.

it was after a revolution, or a war, or some disaster

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I had this dream. We were living together, and we were in bed asleep when strange, enormous cats began crowding around our windows and meowing. They made awful scratching and scraping noises at the windows, trying to come in. But I couldn’t wake you up.

Coming Home

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How many years has he dreamed he would be home again?