Stories tagged poetry

Night Running

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It must have been in our blood, the urge to run.

Hot Tuna – Self-titled

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Life's a long way from here

Upstream

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Rain pours down in a world transformedthrough thunder. The storm rages, night takes on a weight, and everyone hides, most from habit, some from fear. She stands there, soaked and beautiful, responding to the…

Invicta

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As military tears soaked into hymnbook pages

Notes for a Life. In a Swing. No Wind to Speak of.

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Somewhere a banjo, somewhere a hound.

Teen-stache

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resisting in the rain

Antigone Détente

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Tan my hide. Feed me to rabid / macaques.

Hart Crane Pantoum No. 1

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One must be drenched in words.

Cherry

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Running

Biscuits and Gravy

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Lips touch briefly at first

Unspoken

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shhhhh.....

Sonnet, So-Called, Used as Screen for Showing Any Film Noir of Your Choice

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In this version

Pollinator

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There is some Confucian wisdom about paper cuts

Sake

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I had the smallest taste. Liquid heat, gifted from lips. One long moment spent lost in her warmth. Fleeting. I should have drunk more. Would she have relented to one more sip? One final taste? “Be careful,” she…

Digging Pablo

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They’re exhuming Pablo Neruda To put his old bones to the test Determine if he was murdered At the Capitalists’ request.