Stories tagged poetry

Unutterable

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these are the things we must not speak of

This Is Cactus Land

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I cannot regain my balance

These Gothy Days

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(haiku)

Paul Gauguin: Annah la Javanaise

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It's the outrage of the red monkey at her feet, And the nude thirteen-year-old woman sitting upright In the blue velvet chair, and the hints of blue at her navel, And at her lips and belly and crotch, that so upset Paris. Gauguin had his nerve

lighthouse

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the urgent, naked glow of opportunity or the dim fluorescent nuisance of an object out of reach

confetti

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i’ve started writing these things down on blue-lined notebook paper or really anything i can get my tendonitis-ridden hands on.

How To Laugh and Be Happy When Not Drinking

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That is the question, not to be or not to be Life, death, whether to be, all that is superfluous in the face of laughter and how to achieve it under extraordinary circumstances like not drinking anymore I’m afraid not all the alcoh

Nativity in Tahiti: Paul Gauguin

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The young girl has given up, and lies sprawled out upon the yellow cover on the bed, with her blue sarong wrapped loosely around her body. One arm lay back up above her head, where it was thrown during the exertion of birth. Her yellow halo surr

King of the Ghosts

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from “A Rabbit as King Of The Ghosts” Wallace Stevens Grass. Grass thin, bristle grass quilling, rifing in the light's bone yellows, Dry rustle, hot drum-beat of the morning. There the rabbit king comes hunching …

flash

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you're landscape under her flight path brother

Farewell

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It's been swell my friends. You'll be in my heart forever.

Windows In A Distant Memory

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To windows of your world, In a distant memory.

Sea of indifference

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Sea of indifference Coming and going Never committing Like a fickle lover that erodes a hopeful heart

i can't have

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Hey there little hippie girl, smilin’ to the ears and dripping with scarves, I cherish our friendship. However, every time you take off your shoes to dance at a rock show, hair swingin’ like silk vines in the paradise that is your shaking ass...

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

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A woman is fishing in the Seine at the far left of the painting, while time is suspended and light remains. One man plays a trumpet. A half dozen people sit or walk under parasols. Couples stroll and children run or sit or stand beside their par