Stories tagged poem

Black Wheat, 3

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(it) looks out at the world from behind a film (it) does not participate (it) is slow to love . . . There is the image And they say they are in the world . . . Blood does not shake their hearts They lie and take your s

Black Wheat, 4

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They like drugs They are concerned with the self (alone) and they say they are in the world . . . Maybe they don't have this blood that calls out to them or they do not hear it Ride in their convertibles unconcerned Nothing is calle

Black Wheat, 5

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Maybe love shouldn't exist . . . If we follow this notion there is no great need Where does it come from, this great need? . . . If (it) is in the blood how do they get it out? If not, where is it If they do not allow thought

Black Wheat, 6

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The soul was in the eyes but (it) isn't The animal is in the body and can't be hidden One senses the density of the blood there Occasionally the soul rises to the surface Occasionally the animal comes into the eyes They use people and throw them away

Black Wheat, 7

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They use people then throw them away They are after the image There is a desperation in (it) They behave as if they must have it It must be a drug to them Are they that able? . . . They bring it over here and then all they want is im

Hotel Pool - revised 7/17/12

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chlorinated water sits between me and a little brown girl

The Lonely White Elephant in Rome

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the gambling priest stands in the morning fog/red moon hangs in the sky/the army of seven houses marches over the hill

Lola

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I know you through the rich dark brown soilcrumbling in my fingers like chocolate cake.I imagine you nurtured bell-shaped papayas,coaxing their smooth, leathery skinfrom green to yellow,while mangoes, the colors of the island sunset,hung with their tantalizing sweet…

I Alone Am Escaped

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if we can just make it to the zocalo, we will be safe

LOVE NOTE

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Things said in the note I put under your door: I want to scream love words at the ocean. When I open my mouth, the moon is getting full, it has taken about four weeks. There is something resting on your shoulder, it's me when you aren't…

Wanderer and The Temple

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the odd stone stands/taller than trees/it protrudes from the young forest/an old mecca but smooth

Lover

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In the misty afternoon Ramona looked for his swagger of blue.Blue denim.And in the humid night she waited to feel his rough lips.Rough and salty.In the sunny morning she wanted to be someone else.Someone worthy and good.

GOING DOWN ON THE OCEAN

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I can't tell the difference between my hands and my heart. I use them the same, they are both being pulled toward the ocean. Out of the beach grass begins a trail I made in the sand. Made by the dragging of limbs. I spent more than half the…

Soil or Soul?

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Tell me, sir, you, the one with the words on your lips, is that word soil, or soul? I can’t see too well anymore, so maybe just tell me. I wanted to hear it once more, in someone’s voice other than mine. Soil? Or is it soul?

The Exiled Realm

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destinies bring me to a damned desert