Stories tagged poem

Poetry, Inc.

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It comes to our attention you have what it takes to join our enterprise.

Soir Bleu

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Later, he will force her to the hard floor, her mouth a slash of red.

Words

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...have you not woken from a dream with another's words?

Rope & Bone

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Speaking in tongues untranslatable, they move in experimental spacesuits, uneasy in the other's gravity. (To say nothing of the difficulty of dancing.)

Divestiture

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The mitre saw? The Philip's head? Okay. I'll leave the screws to you.

Put Down Your Camera and Love Me

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The dead whale's bones wash to white on the beachhead in Puerto PeƱasco.

Untitled

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I'm on a bus surrounded by people but alone. We are all of us alone. I look out the window I wonder: Does time have a beginning? Is time cyclical? A bus line to the metro? Did the earth emerge from the Orion Nebula?…

Jack,

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Ever think of vacating this crazy house you built?

a writer's plight.

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contact. intimacy. human fucking connection.

Gracious Have Been My Years of Late

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Gracious have been my years of late; The windy drifts blown soft. Truth be told, such luck seemeth bait Eliciting doubts and wonderings.

Subway Casanova

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Red neon face down into a novel on the train about a man and woman in the Mediterranean, seeking seismic activity in the waters, in their lives, in their loins

Sulfur's (Supper's) Coming

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Uncle Moscow

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He asked me to bury him in Vegas. Instead, I had him cremated in Trenton.

The Sum Above

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The mandatory is not / your friend

Semi Tiresias

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I knew my mother would die by the weekend