Stories tagged poem

She Fell From Earth

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疯狂

Insurgencies

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The end will film itself/ in charred, eviscerated bodies

sunburn

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I used to compare her to a sunburnthe first of the summerit is always the worst oneexposed skinalmost hot to the touchturning warm and pinkthen raw and redit is a transition that is effortlessbut still you can feel it happeninga lot like loveyou can feel it all around…

For My Sons, a Poem

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In time, I will forgethow he said "smooshie" for "smoothie"and "eyebrowns" for "eyebrows,"how his upper lip dimpled when he laughedin that uproarious, wild toddler way.How he wheedled to be wrapped and rocked,after a bath, even at age five,his long calves uncovered by…

Today's Going fast

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screw everything, youth is plinko

Cutty Sark

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A sense of plenty courses through

Real Love, Real

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For the first time in her life She felt she understood The smell of a man. The smell of white tulips, The taste of a persimmon In her mouth. She remembered how married she felt To him, in that moment. How close To the earth, and ancien

Strobe Genre, Utah!

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Co-polar order spectrum; strobe genre (the disco light of the 70s illumining and eclipsing fiction-non-fiction-non in one "article"); UTAH! a jump from forehead-down to standing fast, a cheer, for genre studies.

Cannons

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Wounded with driven masonry nails And medallions of swift nests clinging high

House Rules

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Thou shalt not house Unruly gerbils Repeat, thou shalt house no unruly gerbil Thou shalt further be required to oil all Squeaky hamster cages in existence Repair them if thou must Do not let them turn to rust Nor shalt they accumulate du

Here's a Thought

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Cats eat birds Birds eat worms Why not just cut to the chase And have cats eat the worms? Quit fooling around We’ve got to go fix up A new universe Is what

Cybersymbiosis

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a human hand/ looks sadly/ naked now

Suky Tawdry's Cab

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yet fiction, despite contrary reports, from two ends of the American spectrum, does not mean lies, in my HUM

Ode On a Lark

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The man who was fired from a thousand jobs A girl named Calorie Flashes of self-image in shallow waters I had no idea what it meant But now I see it all ads up It’s a self-portrait by Vincent van Gopher It’s a mole on the for

Phenomenology as Snapshots

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The fluffed-up clouds, darkish in spots,/ are moving fast, opposite the wind/ where I stand and look. Equations// could describe the multiplicities