Stories tagged poetry

Professor Einstein's Living Proof (an excerpt)

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Light “I can escape the feeling of complicity in it only by speaking out.” The professor arrives on time, sockless. The former a sign of his polite upbringing. The latter, his lack of pretense and high …

Trompe l'oeil

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After her grief had subsided, the wife felt immediate relief. / Suddenly she was free to abandon or pursue loneliness

Ways of Seeing: Carracci

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I have become interested in Carracci / Ludovico Carracci

Disappear Everywhere

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heroes and monsters

Pausing for a Moment, I Lay down the Biography I’m Reading

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A certain silence in the fields, too much, too little –

Ode to Larry Darrell

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Hidden

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No confrontations. I promise.

Having brunch with my friends

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I ordered biscuits and gravy at the Sunset Grill, Just before the Amber Alert

Air Conditioning Bill

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The last night, I shivered in bed until three a.m., the blankets wouldn’t work, or the socks, or my tears, but I reassured my heart that my next love would be warmer. 
He was. 
And our air conditioning bill was so high we could’t afford it.

Happy Birthday to Me

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Happy Birthday to me. It takes just a second on waking to remember, It's June but it feels like December.

Nude Selfie

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When you have nothing to wear but censor bars because nipples and crotch are the sacred places we save for magic, the bullet catch, the rope trick, the aztec lady, the disappearing act, the quick change. Kim K tweeted a nude selfie today

Write power

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Write power like a purring kitten eyes wide without an idea of exactly how small he is.

The Reason Why

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we dig, never finding bottom

the way you make me feel

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out in space/ platonic forms/ dazzle with/ voluptuous grace

Spain

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Where scenery is property and time is a straight edge; where the clouds are billowed and still; where one sees a tinfoil ocean and perspective to the east; where the static waves begin to move; where an immobile sky rustles and kneels. Our eyes looking still are the…