Stories tagged poetry

Deference of Love

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and this is not the hard part

sunburn

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I used to compare her to a sunburnthe first of the summerit is always the worst oneexposed skinalmost hot to the touchturning warm and pinkthen raw and redit is a transition that is effortlessbut still you can feel it happeninga lot like loveyou can feel it all around…

Today's Going fast

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screw everything, youth is plinko

Alien Girl

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You are different. They are not sure what to make of it. Your r’s roll out too easily.

Cannons

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Wounded with driven masonry nails And medallions of swift nests clinging high

Playing Boggle with Lowell's Mind

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lewd sinew swine

The Judge

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See, in her palm, a tiny ziggurat, built from stacked silver coins.

Hara-kiri

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unwrapping the gauze from her wrists....

Silver

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never disclosing the secret reef of spangled / stars

Cardinal at First Light

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I would paint turnips if they had motion

A Day in Dusk.

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And a delicacy in the right regrets.

Appalachian Fugue, in Three Voices

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Wind across the shoulders of the house, a bit more than I can bear.

So Much

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you then realize why Williams said that so much depends on a red wheel barrow.

The Professor

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I grade to teach and serve my grading cold. / I speak my mind where they cannot hear. / I work by going where I'm told to go.

Be Prepared

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I thought I would beThe standing champagne glassunmarked and gleamingThe sleeping silverParalleling matesInert as ChinaBut I was the catasleep on the rug