Stories tagged poetry

The Human Condition

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The knowledge that gravity will root us, finally and forever, in the clay beneath our feet

Empty Field

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Today with flowers in every room for what doesn't matter I am well aware what you want I am a monster waiting... mournful...

Lay on Me

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On Friday nights I'm not there.

london walking (empty streets)

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st. paul is steeped in fog. mist and rain make the north side a grainy faded photograph, almost timeless.

Ed, Dick Allen, Me, and other Sexual Things

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Lust lobbed sideways every Tuesday from Ed's tongue; skimmed the blackboard and passed under the desks to land squarely in my crotch.

Blood to Rust

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A cinquain

Red

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Fires stitch crooked seams between remnants of sky.

Morning

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That face reflected in the glass cannot be mine,

The Rest Home

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while fingers fiddle across the air, sewing cloth I cannot see.

Third Draft, Suicide Note, Found in a Book

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a terrible shadow of words in the knot of sword vs. pen

East Memphis

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They often hold each other's hands, pretending to avoid the eyes of boys who wish, but never voice the dangerous, forbidden words of love.

Ode to a bathroom stall

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Didn't the ACLU say that people who have sex in the closed stalls of a public restroom have a reasonable expectation of privacy? Do you think that's still true if you can see the feet moving awkwardly under the door?

Walking Tour of Charlotte, North Carolina

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Begin at Settler’s Cemetery, 5:00pm is social hour. Notice the bottle blond in a skirt suit talking to the banker in neatly pressed chinos. Next to them, a yorkie taking a shit on the grave of founder Thomas Polk. Downwind a homeless man on a bench encirc

Love Poem

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The sun slides over the shoulders of the hills.

Postmodern Peanut Butter Sandwich

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Memphis’ man. Androgynous scam. Colonel Tom's Cadillac King.