Stories tagged poetry

Chroma

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Name me any color you like:Chartreuse Vermillion CattleyaLay me in a bed of rare papyrusamong prismatic …

For the kid who fell down the stairs (if that’s the term) when he was 9, but could only remember the string from the light...

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shadows moving

To Don't

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Hatin' on lists with liberal use of the F-bomb.

Revelations

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Mr. Smashface eats fast food at Supermarket # 9

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“Now God,” Mr. Smashface calls me out by name.

you're a james now. here's what to expect:

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fetal position can make a man seem small. harmless. like the child your womb won't carry...

Baby Steps

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The garden path / and her path are intertwined

Saturday's Heart

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day dreams, at last! Timetables colliding, time tables alarm clocks Sunday stew

Varmint

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The word went out in the humid New Orleans / night, wafting from bar to bar

If Blake had only known

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Everything is bound to change like / a damsel to the tracks.

The girl, whose hair was red, green and yellow

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There were trees where I lived and clean pavement

from: The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars

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I got on the Greyhound Bus at 11 a.m. and sat by myself staring out the window. I could see the reflection of my own dark beard in the window, a 27 year-old man with a huge poem bursting my heart, gasping to get out into the bright lit-up world out there,

The Porousness of Borders

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It was in India where we learned to navigate pity.

Nan Sequiter

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there was no mess she couldn’t manage, / no chaos she couldn’t tame.

Salt Thought

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The custard of eternity is scooped into the quantum cone of knowledge and drips out the bottom one lifetime at a time.