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Grooming For Never (Never) Land

Poem   Attempts; again and again To suck in the gut of atrophy You swear admittance will Ultimately rely on the twinkle In your eyes The one where … any attempt Foiling hardship or...

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Breaking Through

Haibun Poem Tuesday evening zazen — not an “ease in” sore thighs and forearms burning, mid-spine vertebra numb legs all troubling thoughts from this morning so much crumbled dust no fresher feeling than recovery...

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Closing Time

Short Poem   Like magic it began a small thing As cells divided and became people Within these confines that were warm, welcoming, alive Lives that took on directions so separate from their conception...

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The Things They Tell Me

Poem   They tell me to forget you That I’m wasting time on feeling who You are inside and appear aside From your bright, fluttering smiles They tell me waiting isn’t worth The return...

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Giving My Life to Time

Poem   rather the water blue to a cool breeze to refresh and undo to the sounds that appease rather be sailing where the air drifts freely exhaling in directions with new twists away...

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A Literate

Poem   Elocute, eloquent Elephant Confess consciously; cry courageously. Please, pachyderm, pardon Our orders, obliging obedience. We want what’s warranted For full finality. Absolve, abject Aardvark. Forgive fully; find forbearance. Mind, mammal, motive- Simple...

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A Curious Confusion

Poem   Last night, in my back yard, a curious confusion arose, you were, I was splendiferously colliding stay home and speak to me, go away quickly leave me alone with you I’m talking...

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The Train Station Couple

Poem   There is only air between their faces now, no touch, no smile, no look, just air. He would like to hold her hand and go back while she looks at the clouds:...

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Wearing Another Skin

Poem About Self-Reflection   Taste me to see — just … go on and on and on She never complained, she just let her reflection take the blame left them all hanging What kind...

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His Own Assembly

Haibun Poem   Frankie squats on the living room hardwood floor. He grabs a blue, semicircular plastic connector. Then he stares at the directions, makes adjustments and adds a short yellow rod. The “Demon...

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Birthday

Birthday Poem   Oh to be 30 again A life lost for one day added Each second older and wiser than my last The drip drip drip of wax upon sugar Constructs of egg,...