Stories tagged poem

The Rest Home

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I have never known this man./ He is not who he is.

Disparate Analogues, Three Fables

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the winding hills’ slow night above the valley’s soft shimmer of dots

Home

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And when everything is said and done and all the blue seems to be gone....

Enharmonics

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There's a perfect edge to knowing.

Too Much Light

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same bruised body sobbing no longer as in childhood but made mild by the torment, the lost beauty and the dutiful who continue to move in some domestic scene they have reason for.

Don't Grieve for Fish

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Not when their captives wear saris the dusky shade of star anise—and think not of death but dinner. Silver scales wink at mirrors; one last dance of surrender and forgiveness.

An Object for the Sun God

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this one was abandoned... a splinter left under the skin, pushed out by protective flesh

Rest

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What do I understand? What have I mastered or come to terms with?

Maine

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A constellation appears in the shape of Van Gogh’s missing ear.

The Girl I Danced With Is Now A Man

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You can't always be everything you were expected to be

Word Burglar

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Oh my god - A plagiarizing pony - I know someone must have said that before

Christ's Fingertips

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they could be barefoot bastard children for somebody else to clothe

Aya Sofya

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In between two bricks / he planted a rumor

Elegiac Beer Toast

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"He is risen indeed," I affirmed with a smile. I loved the surprise on his face. I knew my lines.

Rain - a poem

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Often I'll open a door to the rain Twist the key till the lock gives Feel the night cool against my face And let the water wash me clean I'd like to cry, I'd like to But that would mean my body Knowing my mind was in pain Sticking …