Stories tagged poem

Confronting the Alien

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We are epochs and parsecs apart./ Nonetheless, I love the way your face/ displays the gentler spectrum

No Small Notoriety

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I’m a writer of no small notoriety. That’s right, you heard it. That’s no, none, none at all.

twitter quitter

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you can reach me at hashtag this!

Sunday Morning Series- One: What I Learned in Sunday School

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I learned He was a Schmuck when, on/ the mountaintop, with Abraham,/ I waited on His call: one Isaac, neat.

Dump Trump

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Can’t crump like Trump Cause he’s such a grump He’s in a slump But he’s no schlump Gotta get over this hump And give him a dump But my breasts won’t pump Cause I need a sump pump Can’t crump like Trump Cause he’s such a grump He’s in a

Prayer to Ray Bradbury

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Dear Ray Bradbury, yesterday was my thirteenth birthday, and I could not stop thinking of the Mennonite girl in the milkwhite bonnet, the squint of her eye, the twitch of her anxious finger on the trigger, sudden holes bloomi

Summer Bop & Some Are Not

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This is Bop even if you think it doesn't sound like that.

Neruda's Answer

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A fist against a table made of sand

Confronting the Alien

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I find Vermeer and Bach and feel/ for a moment a shower of my own world’s/ prismatics.

A Singer's Last Words to the Pianist

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This is not my death.

Dead Tom, at the Side of the Road

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The dead turkey’s wife, or lover Watching over his recent roadkilled carcass Seeming to be mourning her loss

Sunday Morning Series- Two: A Tender Faith

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feeding the lions, tigers

There is nearly always

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There is nearly always an explanation for the silence:/ of stars, embarrassed hope, time’s contumely./ Always too the questions beside themselves,/quicker than our nimble moves to unbutton/their too tight fitting constrictions./After loss especially

Catastrophe

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As bad as it is you say it is not that bad, you say it made your Sunday.

What Does It All Mean?

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I passed by a roadside sign that said: Buy Vaseline