Stories tagged poetry

Exile on Main St.

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The sax is a slow river, all misted over, in the decadent drift of summer nights...

Staring at Waves

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the waves all green and gooey, all / pommes frites, ruinous, insolent, half / fractal

Tsalmaveth VI

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Sallowed ephemera and these pressed words are the flora of such dejected places the névé of dust chairs emptiness and the cobwebs like cracks in ice- hallowed stasis the books now never to dehisce despite broken spines and I …

Amor or The Elegist

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In the rochambeau of mind, sword, and hand, Love trumps all; it addles the head, for it one slays and is slain, and it guides …

After Listening to “Neptune, the Mystic,” during a Winter Storm, Jan. 2011

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drifting the dark shimmers of cold

Dreamverse

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I dreamt of dark tidings, of shadowed doors and a porpoise, trapped, seeking outlet from behind jumbled rubble in watery depths. Bad omens, indeed, that tell of setbacks,…

A Bestiary of Sorts, in Miniature

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an empty thread spool as reminder

Sonnet Vortex

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gaze at the painting of a ship in a harbor in a town in a house in a cupola in a hallway in a painting

before i lived in the sky

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i built a house in the trees before i lived in the sky

Riverside

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Talking to Shakespeare by the riverside, I am saddened by my lust for women, how my eyes fixate on the spit that passes from top to bottom lip as they talk to me.

Chinese farmer gets life in prison for evading highway tolls

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Bring me your poor, your tired, your hungry anyone skilled at evading highway tolls Bring me your escape artists dangling upside down in a straight-jacket from the sides of tall buildings Don’t let them starve in the prisons of the world Bri

Dollar Bill @ Starbucks

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I make the blond barista stifle a laugh: metal in her mouth, fish hooked lip, she shoots me this jaded look.

A Day in the Life

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head full of green fields, pink clouds, and grazing sheep

randy the ram

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For you I bring the circus, I reinvent the shine

cell phone keeps ringing in Ukrainian crocodile's tummy

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What did they expect would happen when you keep your Ukrainian crocodile around the house too close to your purse, or your pants or wherever else you’re keeping your cell phone these days? and with those new yummy flavored cell phones that l