Stories tagged poetry

Departures Into / Out of

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Tired of the hunt, tired of empire

Hysteria

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But it was not all sex; sex

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

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…

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...

Lost

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He feels his way

sudden onset happiness

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people talk about depression/ as a great black hound/ bounding upon them,/ teeth set/ for the heart.

Foundations

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King's splendid stronghold Pressing down the earth below Broken by the grass

Poem to the Full Moon #7

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Lycanthropes are a myth.

803 Monroe

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I needed to call you butI'd forgotten your number,the one I always thoughtwas burned into my memory -for hours I anxiously thumbed throughwhite and yellow pages, forgettingthen remembering your name.Between the pages I could seeyour dining room, the floortile cracked like a…

Woman in Mask

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only the silence remains

Dead Parental Units

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Each death a sonnet, every grief / fourteen lines.

You Can Remain Anonymous

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a poem about an abduction in my NYC neighborhood

Accident Assurance

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They found your athymic neck/clipped like a bag of Skittles/and your lifeblood left a Rorschach test on the dash/in which they saw the future/and their own exits/(straight ahead and to the right).