Stories tagged poetry

Big Alabama and the Sewer

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Years passed and the story became legendary...

the blue flower of youth

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I am unable, anymore, to be the blue flower of youth for you. Possibly in life the soul's coldness is brought out by the earth, after the land and ground has been shaken beneath us. Virgin was the goddess when I got here. She still had that flavor.

Bovine

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Three weeks of utters and breast milk and butter:

inside sugar

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I only know this: Inside sugar lives all thought of sweetness. Peace, and all hope of peace, lies under the nose of man, whose odor rises confused, choking on soot to the roof of the world where God lives. God, help us. Don't fatten the raven on our

Sweet Dream

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you are in Faulkner’s dream -a lost pilgrim in cheap shoes

Losing It

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small lacquered fingers tugging at our short skirts we wobbled down the block in heels too high

forget the past

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Forget the past, its heavy arms sunken at last into the waters of the underworld, crushed and oppressed. Its murders, its slaughter, its laws. Killed there, sacrificed, assassinated. All dust, every powder that is the father of history. Knees that h

Be Here to Love Me

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like a rope or chain or ribbon of breath –

The Book Bindery

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In a mad tipsy leap you came up short and hard on the chipped stone counter Bruised and blue below the seams against the inside of your thigh. Your grand jeté a little too low, left you on the black floorboards Wincing in…

Moon Poems

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In any rotation there must be a moment on the crest of propulsion, a moment not troubled by the rotting slag extending into a terminus. I am that man. I seek that moment.

1985...What I wanted

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with cool confidence and believable body language

Cinderella Reconsiders

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take back all the falderal and friggin' fiddle dee dee take back the mad murmuring of ten minutes ago

John & Jackie

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By the time I learned how much I loved my family, I was 3 years and eight-hundred miles away from them

Eating Ghosts

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the talking unicorn in the corner has given up on them, pounded three beers, and passed out.

Dragonfly

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You surprised me then, / climbing onto my finger: / climbing into my heart. / Your long, cobalt body felt weightless on my hand.