Stories tagged poem

Wishing Tree

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Angels keep watch in the forest, the forest without trees, the forest of the dead.They sit on the roadside, give blood and water to the flaccid mountains. They hang love on a forgotten branch. The duduk's music quivers …

i wouldn't give two cents for somebody to love.

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money ain't nothin next to lovin.

Every time we kiss, my hair falls out

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I’m in high leather boots; I’m talking many dead cows here and I respect that

SMASH AND GRAB!

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Blast! crashed through Shelter of car Violence! of blow! On window glass It winced! on Four wheels

The Grave of Rimbaud

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I visited the grave of Rimbaud. It was pale blue like the blood of a baby penguin.

Acute Amusement

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Nostalgia is irrational.

Brooklyn Bridge

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I’m walking funny but only comedians notice.

In the Pastel City

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Then I had / that dream

Natchez Shrapnel

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I was like a bullet shot from a university tower

Not Drowning

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You were a buoy.

Six Short Poems

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Can't please everyone / Or sail in all directions / Sail on / Stay the course / Still the ill-pleased storms come / To suck the wind from my sails

Tsalagi

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A few of us boys walked the dry field after the harvest, dug, pushed aside leftover tobacco leaves curled yellow from the sun. A farmhand from El Paso taught us how to search for arrowheads that masqueraded as rocks.…

Dinner on My Window

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a spider has made a home in the corner of my window so has a fly but not by choice the death of one becomes life for the other when there is nothing to do in the village I have…

Pinnacles

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Pinnacles State Park lying on our backs stoned on hash around a campfire looking up at the clear see-through blue green stars to the other side of the universe I know now you are out there I float up to within 2

As You Go

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our lips touch dainty teacupsas fragile and breakable asthe air around usas our conversationsipping sweet, wild orange teamy favorite:you always were and still are.my piano melodieslet's hum gently alongbackground music for my mindanother constantlike my pulse and the…