Stories tagged poetry

Shorty

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she worked her way into my arms/tangled, curly hair/half-open cherry mouth/clinging to me like she was my other nut

The End of a Song

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When I'm crashing on a couch And I sink into the floor And I write what I don't know And I think what is mine alone

Boise Poetry Slam

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The boy buckled in and told his mom, “No mommy, I can do it myself”

Again, the Spring

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Bitterness: Poem

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Standing hard at the windowCold clouds move, slowBlue horizon in the distance—It's just a slice of blue.All this beautyI miss it in the bitterness.I'm consumed by the missingThe emptinessThe unfairnessAlways some unfairness cropping upand capturing joy.Glancing high…

Pencil & Paper

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Young girl / Stealing coins from pockets / Getting thrown out of school / The streets suited her well / There she blended

Washing Minerva's Hair

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Minerva watched him / her mind was no longer clear and precise / it short-circuited / under the weight of mundane tasks

Pile of Fur

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I examined her tattered hide; she had made a nest out of a pile of fur.

The Tapeworm of Selfish Mammon Eats All the Good Will in the World

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She caretakes, he takes care

Bees in the Eaves

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... Anything to mollify / the confusion. Anything to simplify / the math....

And the fucking black dress.

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The fucking black dress; the fucking black dress that obfuscates whether or not you're pretty in the face, that obfuscates the sound of your voice, that obfuscates the color of your hair, your eyez, your skin,

Eine Symphonie des Grauens, in Close-up Study

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some malevolent, unspeakable craving

Outside

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a cop sits on the hood of his car enters traffic tickets into his gadget talks into his cellphone codes that mean something to someone

The Upstart, Christopher Columbus

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the honey sun

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she looked younger than most 85-year-olds / was well aware of this / cursed god for tricking her into thinking / she was still too young to die