Stories tagged poems

Four Poems

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Our disappearance would register/ as the movement of a sand grain/ on a windy beach full of sand.

Placeholders

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Everyone falls,

Wounds

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Every day, a fresh new/ strain of Hell reveals itself

Inconsequential

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I write poems as if language matters.

9/11 & Autumn, 2001

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#1 written in 2013, #2 in 2001

Phenomenology- Short Stack

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The fly comes in against my will/ and hers. She would prefer/ the wider world with its piles of shit

crave

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The look that warms.

Awaiting the End of Time

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The alphabets will disappear.

A Small Life in Slices

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It’s Sunday- no need to shave-/ but shave, I do. A little act// of discipline in the discipline/ of routine.

TRAUMA

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Everybody breaks. Everything splinters.

I Go Gentle On You

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Prozac, Lithium, shock treatment, a time machine, or to ask Oz that you grow a new heart, whatever it takes.

Existential Dioramas

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and, under foot,// dark caves waiting/ with their unseen pigments/ adorning forgotten walls.

Attic

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Tell me. Is it drafty?

Year End Closeout

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At some point, indifference// will swallow the small gasps./ The appalling will become the norm.

Scratching into January, 2017

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Follow the money. It seeks/ the lowest of the low and finds them here/ in an embarrassing abundance.