Stories tagged poem

Hidden

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No confrontations. I promise.

Air Conditioning Bill

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The last night, I shivered in bed until three a.m., the blankets wouldn’t work, or the socks, or my tears, but I reassured my heart that my next love would be warmer. 
He was. 
And our air conditioning bill was so high we could’t afford it.

Considering the Gods

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your God’s a jealous and judgmental prick,

The Galleries

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We invent our beauties// as we find them and engineer/ our horrors

Mythologies of Self

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We lie sleepless at night, enraged,/ and finger the keyboard

Write power

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Write power like a purring kitten eyes wide without an idea of exactly how small he is.

she tosses the car key out the window

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Dark Matter

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The darkness isn’t evil but invisible/ in the otherwise excellent light of day

Dear Sylvia

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....and that's all that matters.

April Fool’s Prayer

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grant me ten more good springs before

Self Recognition in Chelsea

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Geek Love

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After/ our electrons/ kiss what bliss is there in/ lips, mere flesh, compared to mingled/ data?

The Poet is Highjacked from National Poetry Month

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Its your fault, New York.

Snapshot Outside the Ladies’ Room

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the land she seeks is far from us but still its twin’s the Texas dust that’s tamed today by Texas rain.

Location

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A sunrise over the dark Atlantic, on a perfect beach day, tasting of salt and warmth and powdered sugar; of last, desperate kisses of youth, still shivering from delicious night, is beautiful.A sunrise over the dark ruins of Syria, on hot dusted stones, tasting of lament…