Stories tagged poem

It's Like

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It’s like drawing with Cesium

The Solace of Olives

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Alone in Eugene, / I sought out / the solace of olives

God's Vial

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The porous bear the anchorite’s vial

Ossian City

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I hear the shriek of the Laughing Lady

Vigo Beach

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I watched the waves rehearse / the saline agony of crashing

Unutterable

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these are the things we must not speak of

These Gothy Days

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(haiku)

Paul Gauguin: Annah la Javanaise

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It's the outrage of the red monkey at her feet, And the nude thirteen-year-old woman sitting upright In the blue velvet chair, and the hints of blue at her navel, And at her lips and belly and crotch, that so upset Paris. Gauguin had his nerve

The History of Strands

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We cannot love the past...

lighthouse

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the urgent, naked glow of opportunity or the dim fluorescent nuisance of an object out of reach

How To Laugh and Be Happy When Not Drinking

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That is the question, not to be or not to be Life, death, whether to be, all that is superfluous in the face of laughter and how to achieve it under extraordinary circumstances like not drinking anymore I’m afraid not all the alcoh

Nativity in Tahiti: Paul Gauguin

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The young girl has given up, and lies sprawled out upon the yellow cover on the bed, with her blue sarong wrapped loosely around her body. One arm lay back up above her head, where it was thrown during the exertion of birth. Her yellow halo surr

King of the Ghosts

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from “A Rabbit as King Of The Ghosts” Wallace Stevens Grass. Grass thin, bristle grass quilling, rifing in the light's bone yellows, Dry rustle, hot drum-beat of the morning. There the rabbit king comes hunching …

revelations, minus the dying part

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and even if you feel like you're all grown up, it's still okay...

i can't have

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Hey there little hippie girl, smilin’ to the ears and dripping with scarves, I cherish our friendship. However, every time you take off your shoes to dance at a rock show, hair swingin’ like silk vines in the paradise that is your shaking ass...