Stories tagged poetry

Drift

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Dreams & foghorns.

SLIP

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There was

No 2nd Chances

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Jinxa boiling heartHide the skeleton keyfor the lock iscracked and wrinkledSecond chances eye the keyhole butthe lost lover is a drunken navigatorYour strange faceflushedYour ambiguous mouth buries its head

Mucus Rags

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Allergy season --- achoo!

#2. In Defiance of (and here, choose your own word or phrase)

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daily rituals of the flowered vase

Defiant of Gravity

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I see you in sleep,/ the sands of rememberance collecting/ in the corners of my eyes.

Heeeeeeere's Johnny!!!

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Inspired by a poem I faved yesterday but which has been removed. The poet, whose name I couldn't pronounce and can't remember, seems to be gone now, too. Perhaps I am losing my mind...

Big Top Boogie

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I had the blues. I was feeling down the day the circus came to town. There was cash in my pocket and a bag of weed. I went to the circus with a desperate need to renew my faith in the good of mankind. Perhaps under the big top some laughs I’d find.

Appalachian Silence among the Dark Selves, part 1

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a twist / of broken wire and cedar posts

Portrait Of Junky Summer

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Old scars at night burn hot and bright Deep in her heart in Texas She rides around with the ragtop down Driving her brand new Lexus

Summer of Mary

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You were sophisticated in a way I/ didn’t understand but coveted.

Kafka, Smashed

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perhaps I am only being transported not for replacement but for repair

The Mirror Tires of Looking at Itself

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Sure, to a teacher, life is a paper / but what would life be to a druggist?

See You Later, Alligator

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Nothing feels more like summer than a watermelon war.

Vartan

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Pulling out your tax records scribbled with your handwriting, Pulling out photos of your best friends, Pulling out writings about my long-gone grandmother,