Stories tagged poem

Tamsen Donner

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“One of the death-stricken at Donner Lake may have said, with tremulous voice: ‘Look! There, just above us, is a beautiful house.’” —C.F. McGlashan, History of the Donner Party

The beaches of Danang are beautiful at sunset

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Angelus bells

Don’t Ask Me to Collaborate

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Except with the language I was born to./ Occasionally, with painters and collagists-// dead now, typically- who can’t voice/ opposition to my misappropriations.

Pussycat Pussycat

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not a mouse fume left in me

Veneer

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My skin is tearing in microscopic slits

Cairn

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Your cairns/ are litter in the streets/ they line and they: landmarks

Cairn

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Your cairns/ are litter in the streets

Watch Factory

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I do not know how to shut down the watch factory I do not know how to turn back time It is only fitting that an onion have the same layers as time As the universe, as the world If only I could take time out to the field and plant it And let it s

Have to Find a Way

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I have to find a way To evolve To become To grow into something else To become something else I have to find a way To let go Loosen my firm grasp Watch it all fall away Let myself fall away Drop this act This weight This mess of a life This mess I…

For J.S. Bach’s Three-hundred-twenty-eighth Birthday

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To listen is to feel embodied reason// sing and dance with consummate grace

Orion's Belt

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My first shooting star, wasted on a girlish dream; / The second one equally misused on youthful desire; / The third would eclipse all the rest of my aspirations,

Dream of the Feast

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I’d caught a small fish but there wasn't enough room on the bridge to reel it in completely so I carried it hanging from my pole along the edge of the traffic A fine black dog joined me following me into the shack at the end of the bridg

this is not a love poem

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the other day/ i saw you in the road/ stooped to pick pieces/ of a heart broken like glass/ all over the ground.

TWEET for H #MELVILLE & W #FAULKNER (a poem)

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#ShortStory #writers are failed #poets...

Dear America

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