Stories tagged poem

Descent to Fern and Moss

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Our bodies tender heat in darkness, damp with sweat to oil each stroke in slow caress; beyond our glow the buried deliquesce. We are the flame held captive in the lamp.

We two

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We two have this entire lifetime left, so let's waste it . . . .

Word of the Day

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“I've developed a strong yen for passionate sex with someone other than you," said Alice to her husband Tom as she turned the car into the parking lot of the local Dairy Queen...

I Like It

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My skeleton, mine all mine

A hood is good.

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A hood is good when you suddenly realize you've left home with no hat

Bauble

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The boy in the red hat has no nose, and he is smiling./ The girl with the pointy ears does not blink, ever.

Galactic Bow Shock Romance

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Somewhere outside of the future I am seeing Weinberg, the duplicate failed mimeographed onto the front of ourselvescompromised composite grown from a codependent blastocyte talking to the boxes on the edge of tomorrow, collectiblecrystal lined folliclesharvested at the peak…

Headstone

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On the ground deputies comb the back roads. Border Patrol scouts from the air

Poem before Video Store

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Last night was full of little fists

One Foot in front of the Other

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And soon you'll be walking and walking and walking and walking and walking and walking and walking

eating Korean food and trying not to think about how far away you are and who you are with

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The green skin strains, sea salt collects against the inside of my lips my tongue presses and twists

Dreamverse

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I dreamt of dark tidings, of shadowed doors and a porpoise, trapped, seeking outlet from behind jumbled rubble in watery depths. Bad omens, indeed, that tell of setbacks,…

Dubai on Ice

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When I see the ice hotel in the middle of the desert my eyes melt into nothing. . Oil money. Men die for it so that other men can showcase their plastic wives. Men in black suits and white robes tell me where to lay the…

Chinese farmer gets life in prison for evading highway tolls

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Bring me your poor, your tired, your hungry anyone skilled at evading highway tolls Bring me your escape artists dangling upside down in a straight-jacket from the sides of tall buildings Don’t let them starve in the prisons of the world Bri

cell phone keeps ringing in Ukrainian crocodile's tummy

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What did they expect would happen when you keep your Ukrainian crocodile around the house too close to your purse, or your pants or wherever else you’re keeping your cell phone these days? and with those new yummy flavored cell phones that l