Stories tagged poetry

The Last Earthly Gift

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Your cheekbones startled me, sharp and prominent

Shiny Crimson Trails

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only thoughts lost in lonely trails of red

How to Lose Control of Your Pencil

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Real hands

Blonde Woman with Sunglasses

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Sometimes everything becomes as meaningless as a blonde woman with sunglasses. Still, there is something reassuring about the blonde woman with sunglasses, as she sits there alien to any regime, while I build my new empire of vanilla ice cream, so…

D.H. Lawrence Ghazal

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How many shadows in your soul? Close your eyes, my love, let me / make you blind as the wings of a drenched, drowned bee.

The Water

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The phenomena of this water formed the first definite link in that vast chain of apparent miracles with which I was destined to be at length encircled.

Purveyors of Leeches

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I am a purveyor of leeches. All my friends are purveyors of leeches. We meet weekly to compare our wares.

Departure. Arrival. Return.

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Put down your bazooka, Marianne.

He Spreadeth Sharp Pointed Things upon the Mire

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My uncle looks into the bleached eye of his cat and asks "What happened to my ear?" The meerkat’s eye replies: "You had cancer. Remember? They had to cut off your ear to save you."

Day Slides Like A Drop

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later still wine parties with cucumber red and rich

Spades

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all / the secret letters/ ever dreamed up

Supply and Demand

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There are 1.45 million readers of poetry in the US and 2.9 million poets. The odds of an audience are bad.

Storm

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in his hands, in the music, / in darkness between recording // and this room

Hidden

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She is alone in the ocean

Tu me rends fou

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Feeding you a taste of croissant