Stories tagged poetry

The birds who coo

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My mate and I are owned, but have freedom to take to the endless sky.

Unction

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I'm not sure why I favor forgotten detritus from God's great tumbler...

Life's Living

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I have galloped a brumby bare beneath my thighs, dust deep ingrain from his up north beginning, staining my conscience red.

Fractured Sunsets (with apologies to Stevie Smith)

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In the wilderness of fractured sunsets I am not crying but calling

It’s a compromising situation...

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It’s a compromising situation... The would be Bride of Christ begins perspiring before the crowd. Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring echoes through the antique church just one more time, a little loud. With every added verse and every flickering vigi

Cupcake Footprint

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once wedding cake under pillows. now fluffy frosting on squashed defeat

Care Takers

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Silverfish, so many underfoot in our apartment that we float around all over the carpeting and hardwood floors without actually touching down They do all the heavy lifting around here They clip the dead heads on the roses outs

Latitude Adjustment

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Down South now means August cold snap, the forties roaring my wool cap off my head.

4Beers

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I would ask for your name/if your tongue wasn’t in my mouth.

Dawn

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Fat robins are chirping – loudly – at 4 a.m. They’re trying to delude the worms into thinking it’s dawn already The worms get up underground They’re grumpy, they bump into things They come up to the surface and Wham! That

After the Father Was Done

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My father diedand I replaced himI prepared myselfby playing a fatherto the children inmy school play—Peter PanIn the same play,in the second act,after the father was done, I was oneof Captain Hook's piratesWe battled the boy whowould never age andthe childrenI think…

Tiny Breaths

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Fire and ice undo me. I am born again, born again through the burning ice and biting flame. Listlessly floating cinder-like on lost cusps of wind that multiply with every with every single with every single breath. Spitfire grail and…

She Is My Nightmare

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her skin the color of honey sugary sweet eyes like long-forgotten pathways to a place I can only just recall her hair in twists and her hands touching it fondling it tucking it back behind her ears as she rubs her legs against each other crosses them at…

The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 1

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In those days everyone ate poetry for lunch. It was considered essential for your good up-bringing and mental health. We would skip a meal in order to satisfy our hunger for words. To hell with a meal. To hell with dirty politics and meaningless wars on o

Five Flaiku

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