Stories tagged poetry

Sketches, a Study for Three Heads, 1962

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the moment drips away in my hand’s blast of heat

Sulfur's (Supper's) Coming

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Uncle Moscow

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He asked me to bury him in Vegas. Instead, I had him cremated in Trenton.

The Sum Above

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The mandatory is not / your friend

Semi Tiresias

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I knew my mother would die by the weekend

Chattanooga Afternoon / Let’s Talk About Chattanooga

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Let’s talk about Chattanooga, the cloud / mountains, the monastery bench, drunk / at sunset

Paradise Island

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A man comes out of the waves

The Empty Bed

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But by day the birds / of prey were in control.

The Grave of Rimbaud

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I visited the grave of Rimbaud. / It was pale blue

Whiplash Marriage

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I had a dream the daylight needed / repainting.

Freedom

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the darkness held frieghtened by the surveillance of a distant white shimmer.

Ghazal for the Women

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An unveiled face once more courts suicide. And girls, forbidden books, withdraw to dust.

Vigil

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Each hum and beep, blank buzz, and sigh disturbs the weary eye of sleep.

Exile on Main St.

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a touch of smoke and flesh and food and wine for the radical heart’s darkest hunger

Black Friday Crime Scene

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Her name was Christine and she was nailed to the cross of their lust and their greed, and their vengeance