Stories tagged poem

the boy's own scrapbook

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you high jump a copperhead

black

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my soul is black and it's deep like heartbreak and heavy as stone and as thick as ink and it is pressing on top of me like last nights one night stand like dead weight so that I can't lift my arms or spread my legs it feels like I am walking through mud but it's…

Lucid Sleep

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In my dreams, I feel my dreams fade away.

Seance

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communication/ with the dead

Nude Ascending the Stairway to Heaven

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Whoever told us that truth-telling was so wonderful, when we can plainly see that lying is the way to get results?

What the Dark Matter Says

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There can be no convergence./ There is only the talking that talks about/ an angle of sight nothing else can share.

The Grappling

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then/ pink Jiyūka petals/ dropping onto sheets rumpled/ with love-play

Wet Moses Cement

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If you’re trying to carve wise sayings for eternity to read in a newly poured sidewalk you don’t want to be struggling for meaning while the cement is wet.

If The Fire Is Not In Your Apartment

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If you get crushed in New York City that's your own problem.

In Miami at the Art Fair

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Caffe Tonny in Miami open 24 hours * fresh hot coffee * deli and sandwiches * Mediterranean food * internet services * hookah That’s what it said. No fooling.

Divers

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and, once in a rare while,/ actual pearls.

From Your Lips To God's Hearing Aid

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God’s hearing aid is missing And apparently needs an enormous battery But no one has the heart to tell Him because who wants to be shouting at God?

Gray Lizard

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He can’t enlarge the rock—/ can only find its safest distance

birds

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pieces of lint from some heaven unknown

Dementia and Anger at the Error of God's Ways

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There's enough night sky To make a difference With an abundance of Flying saucers Rotating their fluorescence In our eyes