Stories tagged poetry

The family business had holes in the floorboards

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My father gravitated toward dapper: man or woman, threads, chalk bits, sharp scissors and pins of all sizes.

Edward Ogle the Fifth

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Roaming beetles knitting needles chopstick counter attack.

Everything the Traffic Will Allow

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there’s more to life than poontang but not when you’re sixteen and your hands are full of heavy breasts

No Hay Bandaid

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Pain is the saddle which rides me Pain is the cowboy's gun More morphing, please!

Edward Ogle the Andy

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Concrete coffeecake drumbeat gyrate Andy Rooney ran a meter.

Sacrifices of Famished Promise Made to Apology

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when she says she's lonely he hands her last week's TV Guide

Snapshots I can draw upon to guide myself as a father

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We’d have talked about the village boys, Gordon Cowens, the Lambs, the motorbikes and Morris Minors, what used to be where something else is over canal-side fish and chips from Fazely.

1888: Mrs. Sherwood

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It's gone too long since her Robby Sherwood's dreams rose through the tenement chimney into pear-sweet clouds. Once was he planned histories, carried herself over slopes of hesitations to the night meadow, soft-skinned and whispered. Her man shouldered…

'Til Death Unparted

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He woke to scents of lavendertied in a lilac ribbon,flowers on his pillowa soft hand at his cheek.She whispered love forever And his life fell apart. Morning spoke of love refound,sunlight sailed across the roombut dreams of softest momentsmelted in the…

Two poems by Kitty Boots

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To dance along the wrack line...

Edward Ogle the Seventh

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Airwave candy lyrical brandy brass band singer.

That Being Said

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Push the envelope

Deciduous

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She walked into the oven juicy....

The Autobiography of the Falsehoods Which Are Not Love

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he wound up hating the woman he betrayed in his heart for betraying him in her body

Wanna Bet?

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I was always more comfortable with the ponies than you were / more comfortable with betting windows and two-dollar bills than you were