Stories tagged poem

Healing Comb

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My lover passes the healing comb through the hair of my soul during the night as she retouches my youth

Grand Finale

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Adam hitched his dinosaur to a covered wagon. He drove the Virgin Mary to the Faire. Shiva rode behind them in a silver limousine combing out his long and flowing hair.

Live Oaks

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Neither/ evergreen nor exactly deciduous./ And soon, a yellow residue of pollen/ smearing hoods and windshields

When I Was Young and Beautiful

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I just picked up and went to Rome when I was young and beautiful When I was young and beautiful I played with life like it didn’t matter or exist When I was young and beautiful I never failed Beach nudity Etc Didn’t move me But d

Busy-Body Snake

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I just noticed the shadow of her nipple On her own body!

Thanks for the Unsolicited Advice

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And what is it I’m supposed to do With all this unsolicited advice?

Scripts

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The white space is less cluttered,/ transcription feeling so less urgent now.

Surf Song

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Morning. A hot bright sun shines down on the cool dark depths of the deep blue sea.

Let Me Drown

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Our local low rent ice-based superhero said he’d had enough and would check back in early spring.

At 20,000 Leagues

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Captain Nemo never died./ He cruises all the seven seas/ below the waves in Nautilus 2,

The Bear

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But with soft claws

Where and When It Started

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1968.

Force the Deep Breath

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Explore the damage

Inversion

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If I could see the universe/ from outside the universe// would it look like a snowflake

Palm Strong

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Held to Earth by fiber and root Palm leaves contort in the wind like words flung across a thunder filled room, end over end, between our quarreling anger You have no idea the effect your words had on me last night in bare feet, water dripping from…