Stories tagged poem

Cat Eyes (poem)

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Deadly in the grocery aisles Where they wait to strike After toying with unbeknownst prey Luring with surrogatesto their hidden carnivorous power Quiet, allowing implicit swagger in the dress, Forward cap tilt reveals enough brown hair gleam, Sleek…

We Invented Stillness Just to Keep Ourselves from Following the Fall of Everything

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Even solid seeming concrete creeps/ in time to form the faint smile of deflection./ A marble rolls along the catenary grin.

DISPATCH

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Go speak anarchy and wilderness in color deaf ears.

King Shit Kicker

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There is nothing at all frantic about this feverish process.

Deus Ex Machina

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He rolls in unbidden across the stubble fields / Old acquaintance astride a newly booming cloud/ Under sky an alien shade of strawberries whipped/ Her watch stops ticking out the rest of her/ scheduled breathing poses

Tuscumbia, Alabama

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My dad at the wheel, my mother's ulcer inflamed, she puked her way across northern Alabama that summer, from Huntsville and the rusting rockets to Tuscumbia, the farthest any of us had been west. We drove through raw, blistered towns,…

Three.

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I spent our years together being someone you'd approve, and all

Marmalade

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A man, Athens, April.

Before and After

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My heart beat someone up the stairwell.

The Fallen

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I only had friends in high places.

On a Count of the Stars

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The number is very large/ and perpetually changes// as old stars fade, explode,/ or collapse into something not stars

Uncanny Valley, Goodbye

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When not enough is left to utterThe syllables it takes to say,Goodbye--Disassembled and developed,Laid upon the ground,Like the girded gridlockOn your smog befitted brow...Goodbye.And what if I said, hello?What if I said, good day?Would it change your sunken bodyAnd repair…

The Great Wall of Shame

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Had a dream where I’m standing by the wall of the Holocaust, reading the names, and it’s taking forever

Love In the Warzones of the Wild

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ignored a long time at everydoor on every door, hang a little sign ‘you won’t keep me out forever’

Handwork Isn’t Relevant

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Digits investigate the planet and interrogate the moon.