Poetry
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PoetryHead thick with things
the prongs are there to use don't get your fingers dirty a lot of nice things are sticky the viscous snot ball the brown…
Poetrywhere do we start…
to make amends to the world, to voices in the wind denied by closed windows, to ghosts old and new that pick and fret…
PoetryRequiem for a Wrecked Weekend
Oh, for god's sake, let’s not talk about the coming winter or soldiers waiting outside, rifles readied— wave them in for a gin. A…
PoetryLahaina
“Hawaii wildfires burn historic town of Lahaina 'to the ground'” - BBC I remember coffee-flavored ice cream at the Royal Scoop, how it made me…
PoetryThe Poem
I completely cracked it yesterday. Everyone I showed it to agreed. The Professor of Creative Writing covered his mouth and ran from the room.…
PoetryBird With Yellow Breast
As I sat with my book and glass of Chardonnay one Monday on the patio, a fly flew by, and as I flicked my…
PoetryLet everything in
Let everyone in. Let in a flinty-eyed coal miner from Elk Creek, and a tiny cleaning lady who lives above a bakery in Uppsala.…
Poetryblood on a wedding dress
they kept the dress in a locked trunk in the attic gathering dust for decades forgotten when they passed away—one following the other as…
Poetrya poem masquerades as a persian carpet
the language of the finest wool and metaphors splashed throughout as vivid colors of sky white cobalt blue and blood red while its opaque…
PoetryHe recognized me by my walk
eighteen years it’s a lifetime hair changes teeth most of all yet his accent no softer he doesn’t ride any more but the stains…
