Stories tagged poem

Abundance

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A young woman in shorts removes her sunglasses, putting them on top of her head in order to study the little girl sitting on her father’s lap on the bus. “I want to get me one of those,” she says, with her dark eyes smiling.

What has been birthed

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Five billion years ago, if anyone / can imagine such a number, / so many zeros, everything / begins, slowly, to contract. As in labor,

momentary delay

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The clouds cried more than silver tears, this time.

Anniversary

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We continue,/Held beyond all surface Liking it still/And each other/Often surprised:/Like finding garden flowers/No one planted/In summer bloom

Poem Written While You Cut My Hair

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a force field is not up between us

Bessie and Otto, Otto and Bess

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Lately a coyote has been coming around during the night. It's been waking me up. I read something once about coyotes possessing the souls of those you've lost. It sure is a peculiar sound they make, and it's right outside my…

The mannequins

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I try to enjoy my bookbut the mannequins keep tapping at the windowWhen I look up they vanish Outsidefibreglass clouds are kept in placeby invisible wires——Sometimes the mannequins …

So Close

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I am so close to creation I can see the goose-bumps on her flesh.

Journey

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my pilgrim tongue on the map of your body seeks sanctuary

Philosophers

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But cats know better and just stare off

Concave and Convex Images

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It’s all a matter of warped mirrors. As in the multi-mirrored passage I stood before as a boy

Fall Guy

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Friends of the bride feeling out of place like a church key at a wedding

On The Day That Norman Mailer Died

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Hollow as spit over rock Was the mood in the library...

The Little Book of Risqué Nursery Rhymes

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Hickory dickery dock A mouse grew a big cock He had taken a pill Flew over a hill And started talking like a jock

Don't Drink the Water in America

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During a party at your house, don’t be surprised if Americans just walk up to your fridge and help themselves. And you can forget public nudity with them, intoxication, or urination. Did we mention the violence of U.S. toilets?