Stories tagged poem

It's Hard To Let Them Go

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“I’m holding your hand. Yeah. Here I am,” she said. She turned to look at us. “He’s squeezing my hand.”

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I sat bathing in the sun.

That Time of Month

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when you are feeling your ovaries on both sides, rubbing them to smooth out the necessity of the future inside.

Power Voice

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It’s that Power Voice that so annoys us in cafés or in a bar, saying, Oysters? You think I need oysters? I don’t need no stinking oysters.

Thessaloniki Summer Visit

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What I learned/one summer/in the North East/Thessaloniki heat was. . . .

Flashes of Self-Image in Shallow Waters

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You can almost hear it if you feel like a homeless owl

Carry On

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But God could tell that Adam was still not/ right with His world, alone as he was. Alone/ is fine for a Maker of Worlds but facsimiles/ are so much less than the Original.

Unspoken

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shhhhh.....

I Can't Wait To Develop Patience

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Can any hobo with a beaver become a tree-trimmer now?

Keep more opinions to yourself

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You read your fortune cookie:

Pollinator

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There is some Confucian wisdom about paper cuts

Thalassophobia

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Except where its waves break gently,/ white frothed and reassuring along the shore,

I Said I Can't Wait To Develop Patience, Not Breasts

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All my imaginary friends are asleep at this hour

Act Of Contrition

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I haven’t written a poem in months.

Digging Pablo

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They’re exhuming Pablo Neruda To put his old bones to the test Determine if he was murdered At the Capitalists’ request.