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Three Chairs 0

Encounter

Three of us sitting there, silent. Not knowing what to say next, stunned by the moment we find ourselves in. The vast emptiness between us is like a dinosaur in the room. It’s presence...

Sunset 0

Home?

Eyes stinging in the stale air around me I watch the sun rise below me A new world lies before me. Am I home? Exclamations I can’t understand Stranger’s faces in a foreign land...

Freestyle Poems, Proud of Vanity 0

Vain

Freestyle Poems   White, Tight V- Neck Tee, Rubber Band Bracelet on Black Chocolate, Blue-Grey Men’s Haynes – Black Elastic Waist Band. Cotton Winter Sweats Placed Just Below the High, Round Buttocks, Sized to...

Delicate Love 0

My Love is Dead

My love is dead! My cries depleted by the gentle down, encased. Clipped wings of once beauteous creatures with my honest tears are traced. My love is dead. I lie defeated. I pull the...

Sun in the Park 0

A Collection of Short Poems

Another Angle Wind loops through the rain. Dark, grey, cloudy silence. No more rocks, worms, and twisted corners to battle with. The sky will be blue from another angle.   Mist It falls, soft...

San Francisco 0

Dreams of the Bay

When reminiscing of San Francisco, I think of… Uncharted waters, vivid and crisp Dreaming through a facade in the mist of amber’s rain. Untapped opportunity, thriving from the branches of father time. Leaves of...

Common Tongue 0

Tongue Tied

We all draw from the same pile, Scoop up our words with practiced ease and Feel them time-smoothed, Ringing with the movement of other tongues. They make such varied shapes; Edging out patterns of...

Waiting II: A Proposition 0

Waiting II

My my, do I miss you Like feet without shoes On a chilled autumn night When on warmth they muse There are few who eschew The pull that you do When further away From...

We Are a Mystery of Becoming 0

We Are a Mystery of Becoming

(for Carter) We are a mystery of becoming: obstinate riping of time; capricious tango of biomolecules; the fervent cleavings of a zygote, fated migrations in gastrulas, urge toward organogenesis; discharged into the world a...

Permafrost 0

Permafrost

Look – I need this Format Replace Tantalize Wrap around this little finger…here Search the memory banks; tumult Flex Gasp Shudder, remember those invitations Folded neatly on the seams…here Slam it forward roll those...

tonight 0

Tonight

These are my saddest lines The last that I write for you That you once loved me and I you and everything was wonderful That my pen never stopped moving upon paper And the...