Stories tagged poetry

struck by colorblindness @ noon

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Red and royalblue like blisters seared intofleshybacked tessellatedfishes you once slipped onehanded into your knapsackstolen as it was from a benchat the back…

A Breath of Family Portraits

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the hard rub of hills

Julia

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Six months later, she was teaching theology / to refugees from est.

Or

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I paid the doctor / You paid the doctor

~switches and shade~

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  mis-placed       the change           she goes looking for.        her folks        missed another hour...          her worth-while spent wasting        the voice wouldn’t leave the leaves alone.

My Spirit Floated Free

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The last thing I heard was a loud retch The loudest retch I have ever heard

In Matters of Love

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slow, determined, but

For the Wives

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She parks the car and trudges insidefor her daily visithoping that the new rouge hidesthe old tears.Five years now she has been comingto see himHe looks nothing like the pictures toanyone but her.They say she should go homeand rest, relaxShe doesn't know how…

Illinois Route 3

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If this road could answer I would ask her what it is like to follow the path of the rippleshimmery river for too many miles through the slowly ghosting towns and the corncovered landscapes of the dying Midwest

Answers to Quiz 8

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Skyscrapers may erodebecome animal bonesbrittle splintglittering towersstretching miles into the troposphere.Raging overhead, the Vanguard I(with solar batteries) movesin an elliptical orbit, a small bodythat emits its own light:this is called sublimationin places where…

keys, muted trumpet nearby

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jazz & spring timesometimes mean the same thingthat thing: im prov i sa tionor maybecollab'ration (perhaps)between strangers, orangeblossom perfume sinkingagainst the shallow while while while--while the horizon…

Pieces of the poet

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This is the poem you leave behind that you die in the middle of.

Museum of Useless Things

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a herd of goats in patchwork

This is not my testament:

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cough, moo, the ticking clock

Floozy Walks Into a Bar

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Floozy Walks Into a Bar Toting a handbag the size of a small suitcase Because you never know Floozy Walks Into a Bar Dragging her reputation behind her And everyone looks behind her too Floozy Walks Into a Bar To test the temperature of