Stories tagged poem

Patterns on Time

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I trip on the dimples, pimples, / divots camouflaged in the sand

cracks

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diving felt like my body was sparkling wine—glug glug glug—filling up the flute

Subterranean

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and there is no climbing up/ to any height, and the sun/ is cloaked by cloud,

Totem

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Within resides a serpent

ICU for the Heat Stroke Victim

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There is nothing to do here but exhume the dying.

Lesson Plan

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Maybe tonight, maybe next week,/ maybe only in my waking dreams,/ I’ll teach another lesson-

White Lilies

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“Don’t worry, I’ll show you how.” My hands shook; my heart raced; My knees felt like Jell-o©

taking work home with you

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the sound of ashes/ being poured in the kitchen

Deep Pond

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It wasn't the sun sparkling Or the dog of the neighbor Barking.

Life After Dr. Punxsutawney Phil

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And the mind is racing Spinning donuts at all The intellectual intersections Of life

Bukowski and the Greyhound Bus

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It’s a grey and stormy day naturally We’re crowded into a tiny bus shelter as it pours 57 varieties of cats and hounds They keep hitting the pavement around us with the splatting sounds those animals make when falling out of the heavens

Marks in the Sand (Poetry-Rhythm)

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I am only ever What you seem to be Without the leverage Of sweet reality

One in the Numberless Series of Requiems

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We perform our chosen duty—/ naming beauties and atrocities

Gecko

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“Hrrumph!” was almost audible as she turned/ to sniff behind the chifferobe for fresh/ green trophies.

the swan drives a car

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the swan drives a car ( window down; wing half hanging out ) …