Stories tagged poetry

Cranshaw on a Boat

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We are floating on the Chain of Lakes / eating Rice Crispies out of a bucket.

Artemisia at Her Canvas

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a slow and beautiful silence

My eHarmony Profile

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I’m up to my ass in social media.

Archetypes of Will

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and here is the deed

Deconstructing the Femme Fatale

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and there is none

Inheritance

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I blame you for my short temper when I go off the handle when my blood runs cold and I can't think straight I can only react. When I say things I don't mean Even if I do. But I am glad for the fire you started inside of me. That time I…

Blonde on Blonde

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Happens at a party, this way, past frat boys perched in branches like idiot hoot owls,

read me a life

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we must be quiet at the library. the librarian has told us to shh like a million times now.

whales swim in a lot of pollution because we are awful people.

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jesus wants us to save the whales but i dont really care about the whales anymore. they are all alone.

The End of Wind As We Know It

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The wind’s been howling for a long time and needs your poem to fill its emptiness longing and inner silences with mauve oats, hope and the purity of pleasure you originally brought to the world of unnatural hurt The wind’s been howling a

Foreword

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writing with a pen is a heroic act in this age of public journals & keyboards mobiles made the world into a crowded phonebooth the stage still…

If Only Jane Kenyon Were Here

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the truth, a wasp’s nest surely

Battered Suitcase Memories

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Pulling out of the garage into a thick blanket of San Francisco morning fog we passed eucalyptus trees in the park shifting like tall ghosts behind the curtain of heavy mist

The Centre for Cultural Sled-Dogs?

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Centre for Cultural Sled-Dogs. Oui? No?

My First Hurricane

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Like a dead leaf / lifted from the scorched summer earth / now wet and almost green