Stories tagged poem

Three Little Ways

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There are three ways I can love you, not even half of one more.

Why the World's Fireflies Are Being Counted

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We got Bob Dylan on the wall wriggling from the lack of music and light among the spheres A great doubt has been raised and can be seen from far, far away for they are even afraid now in heaven that things can’t be going right and to

Your Slinky Blue Dress

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A baby carriage abandoned in the middle of an avenue emits a high metallic cry we’re afraid to investigate.

Cutting Rhubarb in the Rain

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Tendering these stalks, making the pie, heralds me a holder of apron strings...

The Ace

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...pull a punch with meaning.

Thrown Away

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I am brokenJust a sliver of what I used to beNot used to missing youStill.After months,You don't think of meAnd it breaks me.Every morning...by the time I've hit the closetI've thought of you.Throughout the dayI think of you.It is my hard place.I can't get over itOr around…

The Underwater Afterlife of Memory

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My fingers are shining in the underwater afterlife of memory searching for the nipple-sized mollusks searching for the solid nature of things left over from having lived a life at all That new rain smell, specifically I remember that,

TOUR GUIDES (Granada Studios 1989)

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Dancers, dunces and brides-to-be

Night Letters to Saint Jude

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Hey, Jude ...

About a shredded silk stockings & main erogenous zone of all women.

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”How many lowers have you had? Why are you still single? “... Gentlemen should not ask these questions and ladies should not answer... the deepest woman`s erogenous zone: Why didn`t anyone tell me this before?...

If I Was a Bum

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If I was a bum I’d risk everything for a drink or a smoke I would beg and curse and steal if I was a bum If I was a bum I would cuss out the Pope I would not vote for anyone because I would know truly they’d be telling gross lies

Inspector of the Dawn

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It is a strange world, dawn. You may find yourself alone with your God, the old, and the young. Very likely a bird. An old one out hobbling past on a cane, a small dog trotting from bush to bush, sniffing a pile of leaves, jumping back, st

Teresa

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each word a simple life lesson draped in velvet

Forgiveness

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Crying in his crib, tomato face red, my little boy is sick, fourth time to shit himself this morning. I pick him up, kiss him on the cheek. A baby's breath smells like butterscotch, their shit diapers like rhubarb pie. …

Morning Poem

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Body hotand the moon gone downyou've left me to exerciseAnd our child is sickbut luckily she sleepsI sit at dawn imagining cursesI'll take us away fromthe strange voices andthis povertyAway from the self-assured,too, who have alwayscolonized poverty and do it againBack to…