Stories tagged poems

Sunbelt Winter Sketches

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Sunlight and the small wind/ swallow the frost/ on rooftops and windshields

On The Day That Norman Mailer Died

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Hollow as spit over rock Was the mood in the library...

Invicta

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As military tears soaked into hymnbook pages

Three Winter Sketches in Honor of the Vernal Equinox

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an almost perfectly symmetrical/ Cheshire grin of a moon tonight/ above the iced roof of the house

Biscuits and Gravy

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Lips touch briefly at first

“Satiety”/ “We the People of Walmart”/ “Blood Moon”

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I’m here for the cheap generics/ and the lowest price/ for a box of White.

Haiku Haiku, Fattened Feral Kittens, Hobgoblin Test

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and watch the bird play and squirrel play/ and the twitching of cottontail noses

Root and Talon, Thumb and Nail/ The Divine Rites of Music

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The worlds whirl and shatter,/ spin, collide, and collapse without intent.

Inequity/ Progress Is a State Not an Attribute/ At a Loss

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We have evolved. The plangent/ doesn’t resonate across the/ new tympanic membranes

ANOTHER STUPID POEM

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ANOTHER STUPID POEM Under a park bench two crows hunch. Beside the bench stands a pounder of Pabst Blue Ribbon. Beside the can glisten two splats — chunky, coagulating in the sunrise. The…

Junk Pulse

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Me included...

Pop Tarts

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The currents of events/ strip the molecules from cartilage,// reverse polarity of ventricles—

Slight of Hand

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Our ironies don’t make us happy

Slight of Hand

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Our ironies don’t make us happy

a pity

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The one that I love - doesn't love me.