Stories tagged poetry

Dude Fish

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the wiggly word / floats toward the crowd

Silence

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In case I need to reach for something that is not mine

Sonnet I

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Much as the cockerel crows the break of day/ So, too, has our love similar herald,

Your words.

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Your words are Ambien.

Night

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The death of light is not darkness but a dimming. Something stays, still.

Sonnet II

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When gratitude on lovers' lips rings false/ As flattery by courtly sycophants,/ Take care to well distinguish gold from dross/ So as to gild gladder remembrances.

Away

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sleeping away the remembering

Sonnets III-VI (The Ishtar Sonnets)

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With porc’lain hand she writes thy thankless verse/ Like Proserpina, strapped to eb’ny throne,/ Eternally paying the six-month purse/ For hunger once soothed with but seeds alone.

I Heard You Like the Back Seat Too, Honey: Song

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They met at a bar They didn’t get far They went to her car Then back to the bar He played guitar She was a rock star They met at a bar They didn’t get far Well, I heard you liked the back seat too, Honey I heard that you liked to h

Body Parts

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They were playing chess with body parts of children they had sacrificed to God.

The Intervention

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"You're publishing too much too / quickly. We think that's unhealthy. We want you / to slow down. You're becoming a fame whore."

Silence

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I let go of my properties, my work.

Sonnet VII

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Oh Triple-Crownéd who evades my sight,/ Guide me down proper crossroads in this life/ As you have promised to grant me your might/ And make of me eternity's fair wife.

February

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a big silent western sky

The World is Bigger

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It is best not to judge.