Stories tagged poem

Lost among the Riff-raff

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Poor, pocked Ceres- dwarf planet/ trapped among mere asteroids-

The Five-Twig Nest

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That’s why I am always on the lookout for a good pigeon’s wife. Looking to get a little pigeon sugar, I am.

Barnacles Still Attached to Soul

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And here’s a picture of you at the end of the line to the great toilet of fiction, waiting to relieve yourself, quick before the poetry gets to you. Or worse, the actual poets.

Dream State

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forced to submit/ to reasonableness// and universal healthcare.

What I Saw There

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I saw a tottering old man and his crippled younger wife taking turns taking pictures of each other before the plate glass windows at the Macy’s Starbucks overlooking Union Square, and couldn’t help but wonder who would end up taking ca

One Way (for Tina Kieffer)

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This mother, she buys a one way ticket whenever she visits her three daughters who have wandered far from the eyes of her pearlescent knitting needles and tutti-frutti yarns.

At the Cafe

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The light on his face might be from a lamp, felt hat with a black band scrunched down, the light on his face as though thrown there. The nose creating a strong shadow, with dark, straight eyebrows under the hat, red and orange beard. L

The Bird Nests of Lascaux

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With their bits of brightly-colored, found string woven into the walls of their nests to teach their baby birds what the worms of the future will look like. Sort of like the cave paintings of Lascaux were to early man in France when h

forever

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over tea & saltineshe read melike an obituary

Dumb Luck and the Fall of Empires

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At some point we all reach the end point/ of something. Something important/ if only to our fragile self esteem.

The Bird Nests of Lascaux

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With their brightly-colored bits of found string woven into the walls of their nests to teach their baby birds what the worms of the future will look like. Somewhat like the cave paintings of Lascaux for early man in France, when hunti

aromatic

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this bleeding sun, clove studded & seedless

Song Without Wonder

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What I’ve got is priceless, but no one wants it. Hmmm. I wonder if I can give it away, or have to haul it to the dump? What I have is priceless. Priceless. What I have is priceless, but no one wants it.

Little Tech Puppies In the Artisan Beer Hall

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Little tech puppies, well compensated for code/ that outsourced laborers will realize in supercheap,/ superchipped gewgaws, sip artisan beers

early spring

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the late snow, though not welcomed...