Stories tagged poetry

Artist-In-Residence

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It amazes me how easily I can let go get on a plane and take off live among strangers write in a foreign office read outside on the balcony cook dinner for one drink wine at noon laugh with new friends it amazes me how easily I can let go…

Another Land

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In another land...

Mountains

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Never Enough

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“it's never enough... no matter how good you are compared to the team..."

Eretorua

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Eretorua –somewhere in the land of the Māori

Stop Sign

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Made sense then, should have written it down - But I fell back to sleep instead

Circle

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working in a white lab coat and cotton gloves chipping sculpting sipping brandy smoking Gauloise cigarettes

Stumbling Grace

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I'm not sure if my heart is breaking Or attacking Like an aged lovesick romantic with a faulty beat, I sense a valve needs replacing But only after the main artery has been sutured and made whole By a seasoned and skilled Midwest surgeon in a…

The Fat Man's Third Wife

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They say it was like an elephant married to a dove. Imagine, me, a dove! Ridículo!

The Hotel Where Esenin Hanged Himself

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I walk by the hotel where Esenin hanged himself.

Ratatouille

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The body receives its embrace but / only by the anti-body.

The Rest Nowhere

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A screaming comes across the brain

A Journey of Seven Thousand Miles

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The taste of / what is denied us is always sweet

Speak

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She can still be normal, says Momma, knowing my sister can’t hear, forgetting I can.

The Ice Cream Mantra

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Chant the ice cream mantra. Prance the do dah day ballet. Trot the t-bone tango two-step. Dance the livelong day away.