Stories tagged poetry

A Physician Bearing Witness

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Human, you said, Comfort me, at this the end, Life so long, and smiles so short, What will lie beyond the bend?

Morning Poem

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Body hotand the moon gone downyou've left me to exerciseAnd our child is sickbut luckily she sleepsI sit at dawn imagining cursesI'll take us away fromthe strange voices andthis povertyAway from the self-assured,too, who have alwayscolonized poverty and do it againBack to…

The Gift Downright

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A column of children yellow striped and blue and red below black hair smooth trailing

Honey Gold

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your light is gonna last me through the week

Selfish Success

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I wear my gun so it shows, so everyone knows.

Mothers of Invention

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the thing has tipped the balance somehow

Watercolor on Canvas

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Dad taught him how to paint the sky, but it was the shadows Frank loved.

Magnetic Soup Wagon

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We may sniff a gush of something in the rush of heat round a petrol bomb. Or reap a gift from the cracked head of a hero.

1958-1961

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In those years, you and I were told to leap for a world suffused with sound and industry.

a glass

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aglassdropped upon the floorspreads shiny shards and splinters further and further& (crash!)they prick at my white finger when i touch theirbrilliant glimmer

Dear Sir

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[Lights up on CLAUDE. He's holding a letter, standing.]CLAUDE: Dear sir, We regret to inform you That your (that place with cream walls and dog hair…

Way of the Woman

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Swing those hips, baby/'Round and 'round...

I Am Not a Corpse

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A corpse cannot cry.

Mussel Memory

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Andreas Cappelanus taught that the word / “love” comes from the word meaning / “to fish.”

Knot Eye

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The diagnosis was peculiar, the doctors agreed, / but so was the condition