Stories tagged poetry

A Chaos Theory

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—with spinster goddesses in the middle of things / circling looms.

Algae Freunden

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She had a strange name which I am ashamed/ To have forgotten, seven times, maybe nine,/ Her lips transgressors, wet with sourapple ...

Mothballs

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In the closet where her leather coat hung/ Are cedar things, some strange potpourri ...

Metaphor

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Don’t try playing with your shadow It can lead to serious consequences It will constantly follow you if you do It will always return like a bummed-out dog Playing with your own shadow too much could lead to insanity You should hide

The sound of your shoes

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The smell of your chest, and the taste of your lips as they touch mine

You leave me

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laying with you, thinking with you, breathing with you

Alcoholic Uncle

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You have holes in your mindwhere your true, positive mindformerly thoughtYou have eyes that are beautiful but insane andseeking chaos to stirYour face is old andgray-covered, gray-colored,nodding downward, makingshapes in the snow, reemergingwith frost burnsYou have killed…

Who is Charlotte 1?

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Charlotte 6 is immature on Sunday afternoon Charlotte 7 is deciding who to blame tomorrow Charlotte 8 is feeling remorseful on MondayCharlotte 9 is a raging world external to us Charlotte 14 is an abacus in quicksand Charlotte 15 is a spiritualized portrait with…

Ode to a Crow

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We walk in silence. We water our plants. We don’t eat as well as we should. We try to love. We try to forget.

Suitcase

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What shall be packed in my suitcase when I leave?… Fairy tales for a life not lived right. A whole life of occasional hearts shoved into a box with locks.

Hands like wings

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You materialize out of the darkness

No Flowers in June

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Of flowers there Are none In June No sun Upon my cheek The gentle breeze Stirs me not The smiles They cloud my vision Birds they Sing their songs But I hear Them not When tears Rain down My heaven.

Kilkenny

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Green hands wave in freezing water.

Gravesend Bay

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Blinding white and grey world half mile from the shore ice crests aligned in their dying wave shape, we traipsed on a blizzard hard water wasteland

When a Bowl Hits a Tree

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You would think when a bowl hits a tree the sound would be fierce, a loud clatter as stoneware explodes on birch bark dispersing shards in daffodils and grape muscari, but the noise is gentle, a thudding clink like empty bourbon bottles rattling hollow in…