Stories tagged poetry

Bitter the Sun When It Is in Hades

792792 views55 comments00 favs

Bitter the sun when it is in Hades High fans meaning nothing keep the heat down but the nitre keeps burning So glows the gloss and high sheen on the skin Foreheads exhibit thought though the eyes are crossed and at night, butterflies i

Solar Plexus

7272 views1313 comments99 favs

It’s always something that cloud nine kind of thing, ruby shoes and ecstasy

just like James Taylor

11301130 views1313 comments44 favs

tell me about the time you lived in Carolina, and what my smile does for you.

Science

325325 views1414 comments77 favs

electric noose for your balls

Old Friends in the Aether

3838 views00 comments00 favs

Cat summoned for jury duty in Boston

963963 views33 comments22 favs

Cat summoned for jury duty in Boston Wayward hawk loose inside Library of Congress finally caught (God only knows what happened to the doves) Vacaville roof collapse blamed on bird droppings These are a few of my favorite things Piano mysterio

For the Women

143143 views88 comments44 favs

Near Peshawar, a sister has transgressed. Her purple thumb, whipsawn, collects the dust.

Ghazal Of The Calcium Channel Blockade

7272 views33 comments22 favs

"...So very tired, yet we tried ... to ablate the tide..."

Journal of the Plague Year

186186 views2525 comments1616 favs

I am sick to death of this war

A Halo of Smoke

7979 views66 comments44 favs

My father is dying but he cannot stop smoking.

Denmark (or On the Death of John Updike)

13491349 views1111 comments33 favs

The impression old Updike left on a young mind.

Nebulous Notion

5252 views22 comments11 fav

I will have been a cloud...

I Gave You a Fountain Pen

4848 views22 comments11 fav

You just shrugged an oy vey and then pulled the ants off the cheese as if praying the rosary and patience were synonyms.

post facto

2828 views00 comments00 favs

after un coit us, she crawls inside the well of his navel nesting on soft lint

Prof. Laughingstock

222222 views44 comments22 favs

Prof. Laughingstock verbs his object one of the few objects he can afford he verbs it with all his abstract noun Prof. Laughingstock has a humanities doctorate and eats cat food straight from its can Prof. Laughingstock recites some of The Waste Land…