Stories tagged poetry

THE DARK

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The Dark It chokes It threatens To consume me Im Scared Mommy Im confused Everything is A Secret But I Know Who is that man You're withI call Uncle But I wait Outside Why does your hug Feel safe But anothers Feels So Wrong …

The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 7

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On my way home that first night, I stopped off at a liquor store on San Pablo Avenue and bought a semi-expensive ($2.98) bottle of zinfandel, a real luxury for us. But I figured I would have a paycheck coming and wanted to celebrate my getting a real job

Stretch Marks

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Stretch marks part my heart, stretch marks part my body.

compass/ion

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a question that (never) left

Warm Saké with Plucked Samisen, a Tray of Food, a Tangle of Bodies

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just a hunger to feed...

The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 9

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Warren Jeffries left this girlfriend of his named Karen, who was also a poet, and overnight she announced she’d gone back to being a lesbian, she’d so had it with MEN! She did a reading of her new series of Sappho poems at Cody’s Bookstore, and it w

New Race

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You were red-faced drunkin your blue Andean capI was right there with youdressed in a suitof black gold armorI was releasing some evilthat had stashed itselfsomewhere below pelvic bonesWe clambered and negotiatedthe winter nightwith tales about autumnThe red-haired girl…

Love Poem in Thirds

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would mean nothing to you

Let Us Meet In The Afternoon

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You are Day I am Night Let us Meet In the Afternoon And…

Kahen no Ame

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A Haiku for a wandering writer, on a long journey.

A Girl's Legs Stirring The Air

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A girl’s legs stirring the air up behind his back as he lies between her thighs stirring the air repetitively like a sea anemone stirring the water to feed the soul, the hunger between the legs and arms for new life, stirring up

Dear Carl

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keep your fiberwigs in check

A Corridor in the Asylum

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browned numb with acceptance

Pigeons Having Sex On An Air Conditioner In New York

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“The place is great” we told the rental agent “except for one thing “Pigeons are nesting on the air conditioner in the bedroom window “At 7 a.m. the pigeons were having sex on the air conditioner “They started getting r

Their Nipples

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The soft twin winds of peace and harmony flow through your nipples It is not milk that gives such flow but the whiff of life’s spirit, the wind of poetry the renewal and the silence of the love you give me I suck like a new