Stories tagged poem

On Perfect Marble

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So the subtle shadow settles onto perfect marble on the floor of the ocean when the sunlight blooms over space and time but only in the near future as it has always been

Improvisation on a Theme of Absolute Absence

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Perhaps nothing has never existed;/ perhaps something always has

Greater Fears of Flying

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Turbulence Flatulence Abundance Corpulence Ambulance

Breakfast in Prague on 9/11

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I was sitting in Prague having breakfast on 9/11 near the Astronomical Clock while the world was bombing ISIS the sons of ex-Nazis sitting at a table nearby and old apparatchiks leisurely eating sausages while the world took a moment to

Bums of the Bird World

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Yeah, okay, so pigeons are the bums of the bird world So what are a flock of crows working over a wheat field while the artist Vincent is desperately trying to live with his bleeding ear or to sell at least one painting during

The Hazards of Language

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Funny, how a preoccupation with words can make you fret, can make you fumble.

Shrinkage

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Its fingers stretch

Scottish Independence

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with peaty aromatics, opened,/ and a welcomed sting, swallowed,

Rupees

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Days like this I operate this city on muscle memory.

Human Kind Can’t Bear Very Much Reality

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Particles flung by the sun pierce us through, undetected

At the Bend in the Road

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I was at the bend in the road thinking of Robert Frost but there was no fork, there was no yellow wood, there wasn’t even a horse to ask me why or what if There was no decision to be made just a thousand tourists from Prague

Be Careful What You Wish For

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I got my new dog today, a toy terrier, as advertised, from an online retailer, and printed him or her, I’m not sure which, because of an inherent glitch built into the system, on my new 3-D printer,

All there is

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You need buttered broths and to copy old writings by hand by very poor light.

On Czech Soil

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You are now leaving Czech soil You were there for a thousand years

Old Soul

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She’s an old soul who was scattered to the winds like a thousand butterflies and a moth She has no center and flits from event to event and can’t miss out on a thing, because crikey, what if she missed something important? And the m